"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
.. .


I found the following which suggests that the river did not freeze all the
way
across at Teddington during any winter between 1895 and 1963. I am,
of course, happy to defer to anyone who knows any better.

http://www.the-river-thames.co.uk/weather.htm

And on a rather different note from the above I found this bizzare
statement on this website:

HEAT-WAVE

There were four major glacial periods when there were long spells of intense
cold. Between these periods the climatic conditions improved and temperatures
rose - called 'interglacials'. During one of these, the temperature rose to such
an extent that the climate in the Thames Valley was similar to that in Central
Africa today.

Assuming these were the interglacials of the last 100 thousand years
or so, how did we ever get equatorial conditions in Southern England?

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk