"Ian Currie" wrote in message
...
Snow in the first week or so of October has occured in southern
England even
on low ground. snip
For instance in 1888 ice disrupted the Faeroes
fishing fleet from entering the Thorshavn harbour even in July so no
wonder
snow lay on the streets of London on the 11th October in 1887.


.... The October of 1887 was one of the 10 coldest in the CET record -
indeed there appears to be a clustering of cold Octobers in the latter
part of the 19th and very early 20th century (1880, 1887, 1892, 1895,
1896, 1905):

.... as for the summer of 1888, the mean CET value of 13.7degC places it
in the 'top-10' of cold summers by that measure.
(all figures based on the Hadley/MetO datasets)

Martin.