On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 07:41:02 -0800 (PST)
Keith Harris wrote:

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

Yes, 3 year-olds were more advanced, motorcycles from the time could
still be considered to be "high-performance", and only teenage girls
walked to cafes back then.