On Thursday, 5 November 2020 09:36:14 UTC, Spike wrote:
On 30/10/2020 18:37, Keith Harris wrote:
On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:46:17 UTC, Spike wrote:
On 29/10/2020 19:15, Paul from Dawlish wrote:

We should see a turn down in global temperatures as our winter approaches.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/

Couple that with the huge reduction in CO2 from aviation and shipping,
and the reduction in contrails, and we could be in for another winter of
62/63 or even 47/48.

Do you remember them?

All too well.

In 1947, my bedroom was the small box room, with two outside walls, one
facing north and the one with the window facing east. It was freezing
cold, and in a morning I couldn't see through the ice on the inside of
the window. To keep warm we were burning ex-WWII rifle butts on the
back-boiler fire - being well oiled they burned very well.

In 62/63 the teenage social hub was a coffee bar about six miles away.
It was fun riding a high-performance 500cc motorcycle through the snow
to get there. The snow was so bad that those who had cars couldn't get
to it, so for a short while it became a bikers hangout, with less
competition for the teenage girls who could walk there from the nearby
mid-wars housing estate of private houses. So, not all bad news.

--
Spike

A different time and a far different climate back then...

Keith (Southend)