In message , Adam Lea
writes
On 24/02/2017 14:00, Graham P Davis wrote:

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2017/0...nd-community-f
arming-and-the-1947-winter/



I wonder what the effect would have been had that winter occurred three
or four years earlier.

I imagine it could have been devastating. Even in peace-time, the
effects were very bad. The winters of 1940, 1941 and 1942 were cold, but
fortunately not in that league. (I believe that at least one of those
three winters was also exceptionally severe on the Russian front, even
by that region's standards, and thus did the Allies a big favour in
hampering the German invasion of Russia.)
--
John Hall
"One can certainly imagine the myriad of uses
for a hand-held iguana maker"
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