The bleak winter of 1740
London had a staggering 39 days of snow between November 1739 and May 1740 and the average temperature in southern England stayed below 0C, on average, for two months.
London had a staggering 39 days of snow between November 1739 and May 1740 and the average temperature in southern England stayed below 0C, on average, for two months.
Freezing Forties
The Forties were cold, but 1947 especially.
The Forties were cold, but 1947 especially.
From January 22 there was absolute snowy mayhem in the British Isles. In England five-metre drifts were reported – and seven-metre drifts sighted in Scotland. Snow joke.
Villages were cut off, the army had to deliver food to those who’d been stranded and railways were completely blocked.
Snow fell somewhere in the UK every day from the above date to March 17. And it was very nippy indeed, with a temperature of -21C recorded at Woburn in Bedfordshire. Note: Not Scotland - Bedfordshire.
Not so sizzling Sixties
As if fashioned by Narnia’s Ice Queen herself, 1963’s winter saw Britain smothered in the white stuff, with most of England covered in flakes from Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963.
As if fashioned by Narnia’s Ice Queen herself, 1963’s winter saw Britain smothered in the white stuff, with most of England covered in flakes from Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963.
Astonishing 20-foot drifts were recorded along with 119mph winds (on the Isle of Man) and bitterly cold temperatures - the mercury plunged to -22C in Braemar, Scotland.
Meanwhile, in January the sea froze for a mile from the shore at Herne Bay in Kent and parts of the Thames iced over to such an extent that people were able to skate on it.
The year 1982 saw the all-time lowest recorded temperature in the UK equalled. In Braemar, Scotland, it reached a truly shiversome -27.2C. The last time it had been that cold was in February 1895. What’s more, temperatures even plummeted to -20C in southern England.
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