Looks like - snow or not - just about everywhere will have a cold New
Year's Eve, and cold New Year's Day too. Given New Years Day 2009 was
also cold, it looks like a cold start and end to the year. The vast
majority of New Year's Eve/Days have been mild in the last 20 years,
and I think in the 80s too - ISTR even January 1987 starting mild and
wet before changing two or three days into the New Year.

So can anyone recall a previous calendar year with a cold Jan 1 and
Dec 31, or two consecutive cold starts to the New Year for that
matter?

Nick

"Nick" wrote in message
...
Looks like - snow or not - just about everywhere will have a cold New
Year's Eve, and cold New Year's Day too. Given New Years Day 2009 was
also cold, it looks like a cold start and end to the year. The vast
majority of New Year's Eve/Days have been mild in the last 20 years,
and I think in the 80s too - ISTR even January 1987 starting mild and
wet before changing two or three days into the New Year.

So can anyone recall a previous calendar year with a cold Jan 1 and
Dec 31, or two consecutive cold starts to the New Year for that
matter?

Nick

Just like Joe B said.

Nick wrote:

Looks like - snow or not - just about everywhere will have a cold New
Year's Eve, and cold New Year's Day too. Given New Years Day 2009 was
also cold, it looks like a cold start and end to the year. The vast
majority of New Year's Eve/Days have been mild in the last 20 years,
and I think in the 80s too - ISTR even January 1987 starting mild and
wet before changing two or three days into the New Year.

So can anyone recall a previous calendar year with a cold Jan 1 and
Dec 31, or two consecutive cold starts to the New Year for that
matter?


Easy! 1st Jan and 31st December 1962. And add 1st Jan 1963 to fulfil second
requirement.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

In article
,
Nick writes:
So can anyone recall a previous calendar year with a cold Jan 1 and
Dec 31, or two consecutive cold starts to the New Year for that
matter?

1996 sounds like a likely candidate. Going further back, 1962 would be
another.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

"Nick" wrote in message
...
Looks like - snow or not - just about everywhere will have a cold New
Year's Eve, and cold New Year's Day too. Given New Years Day 2009 was
also cold, it looks like a cold start and end to the year. The vast
majority of New Year's Eve/Days have been mild in the last 20 years,
and I think in the 80s too - ISTR even January 1987 starting mild and
wet before changing two or three days into the New Year.

So can anyone recall a previous calendar year with a cold Jan 1 and
Dec 31, or two consecutive cold starts to the New Year for that
matter?

Nick

15,000 years ago. And for several thousand years on the trot. ??? :-)

jim, Northampton



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