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Old June 1st 14, 02:03 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Tragic London storm marked slide into World War One

A bit of Sunday reading for you all.

What I find fascinating is how this happened two weeks before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated - exactly the same timescale as the lightning strike in 1939 that happened two weeks before Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany

http://wansteadmeteo.wordpress.com/2...lide-into-ww1/