Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

It is rather difficult to draw long term climate conclusions from
anecdotal experience of British weather. Might be possible for a much
more long lived species than us. I just missed 1947 as a benchmark,
but I think 1963 was somewhat worse than this year.

It was. In Crawley it snowed on Boxing Day 1962 and that snow lasted
until 6th March 1963. Further, the snow was no good for snowballs or
snowmen, so it must have stayed below -5C during that whole period.

In Leeds there was a fortnight of freezing fog, and for two weeks we
didn't see the street lamps, let alone the sun. There was three inches
of frost on every twig.

Solar panels would have worked a treat, then, eh?

Probably not - but I do have to grudgingly support smokeless zones in
the context.

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Roger Hayter