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Dave Cornwell[_4_] · December 18th 13, 06:09 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

wrote:
With a couple of exceptions all my snowfall occurs December to March.

Apologies, I meant to say December to February

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One observation I have made over the years is that most statistics and
data seem to show 1962-63 to be a more severe winter than 1947 IN THE
S.E. But quite a lot of people I have spoken to that lived through both
(including my dad) seem to think otherwise. Perhaps it caused more
hardship just after the war. There was a fuel shortage (although this
was also the case in '63). My father had to go looking for wood for
heating when my brother was born in March 1947. They only had that
source of heating whereas in 1963 we were living in a house with better
(though not central) heating. Travel was much more on public transport
than by car so a lot more standing at bus stops, although even by '63 a
car was still something for the somewhat better off.
Dave.