Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
.. .
Sorry to start a new thread, but I can't find the old one. I'm
surprised so many people seem to think major blocking episodes
in October are unusual. I suppose it depends what you mean
by unusual: if simply "not usual" I suppose I might be persuaded
to agree, but if you mean "rare" then I demur.

Anyone who wants to see a a good example of blocking,
rare in its longlastedness, rare in its geographical extent, and
rare in the way one sort of block followed another, take a
trip to www.wetterzentrale.de and look at the archive for
Sept/Oct/Nov 1993.
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I'd been thinking of October 1993, Philip. It was my first autumn commuting
to Bracknell and lulled my into a false sense of security.

Jon.