The winter of 1947 was largely responsible for the mass emigration
of nearly 1 million people from Britain in the next 15 years. These
people went to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

My family emigrated to NZ at the end of 1957, and the 1947 winter had
nothing to do with it. The great London smogs of the early 50s did,
though - my father's mother died in one. (A more important factor
than the climate was that the money was better). A cousin emigrated
to Labrador soon after; hardly in search of better weather, but she
could count on there being no smog.

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