"Scott W" wrote in message
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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/

Thank you for posting that interesting news event, Scott. I was born and
raised in Tooting Bec, (though I wasn't there in 1914 I hasten to add) and
am very familiar with many of the places mentioned in the articles, in fact
my primary school was at Tooting Broadway. I must say that as a boy I was
told never to shelter under trees in a thunderstorm, but did not know then
that the safest thing to do if caught in the open is to crouch down as low
as possible, keeping the feet together. Needless to say, German bombs were
the hazard of my childhood, and posed more of an ever present threat than a
thunderstorm would.

I am not sure why you have included mention of the start of WW1, a
completely unrelated event, saving that it happened in the same month and
year, (as did millions of other unrelated events, significant to somebody).
Even if the storm had happened on the same day as the Archduke was killed,
there would be no discernible relationship between them, even if the
Archduke had been killed by lightning, unless he had been in south London at
the time.

--
Bernard Burton

Wokingham Berkshire.

Weather data and satellite images at:
http://www.woksat.info/wwp.html