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Old February 13th 15, 11:11 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Lawrence Jenkins Lawrence Jenkins is offline
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Default 1929 - Whitstable sea freezes over

On Friday, 13 February 2015 22:49:43 UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
I was down at Whitstable today and noticed on the wall at the fish market
the following story:

"On 15th February 1929 the sea froze, one of several occasions when this
occurred. As the oyster beds lay some 2 miles off the coast the crews has
to walk across the frozen sea to their boats." - which I thought was quite
impressive.

Are there any statistics anywhere of the sea freezing round our Isles (and
its extent?) - I'm aware of this happening in 1963.

Certainly on this (1929) occasion it was a cold one: -15c 850mb
temperatures or less over the Southern North Sea:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/ar...0219290215.gif

Richard


It did the same in 62/63

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PXHAV6Fx10 Dec 2010