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Winter of 1962-63 - the big anomaly
Topic Started: 7 Nov 2015, 01:57 PM (323 Views)
daib0
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from the Blog

Not a lot of people know that


The Winter Of 1962/63

The winter of 1962/63 was the coldest for 200 years in Britain.

The Met Office describe it:

It began abruptly just before Christmas in 1962. The weeks before had been changeable and stormy, but then on 22 December a high pressure system moved to the north-east of the British Isles, dragging bitterly cold winds across the country. This situation was to last much of the winter.

A belt of rain over northern Scotland on 24 December turned to snow as it moved south, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938. The snow-belt reached southern England on Boxing Day and parked over the country, bringing a snowfall of up to 30 cm.

A blizzard followed on 29 and 30 December across Wales and south-west England, causing snowdrifts up to 6 m deep. Roads and railways were blocked, telephone lines brought down, and some villages were left cut off for several days. The snow was so deep farmers couldn’t get to their livestock, and many animals starved to death.

This snow set the scene for the next two months, as much of England remained covered every day until early March 1963. While snow fell, and settled there was still plenty of sunshine. The weak winter sun did not warm things up, however, as the lack of cloud cover allowed temperatures to plunge. In Braemar in Scotland, the temperature got down to -22.2 °C on 18 January. Mean maximum temperatures in January were below 0 °C in several places in southern England and Wales, more than 5 °C below average. Mean minimum temperatures were well below freezing. Temperatures weren’t much higher for most of February.

The long bitterly cold spell caused lakes and rivers to freeze, even sea water in some of England’s harbours turned to ice. Ice patches formed at sea and on beaches. Winter didn’t fully relax its grip until 4 March, when a mild south-westerly flow of air reached the British Isles. By 6 March, there was no frost anywhere in the British Isles and the temperature in London reached 17 °C – the highest since October 1962.





I've posted it as the anomaly because if you see the world maps on the following link you'll see thast whilst Britain was immeresed in a horrible frozen period, Greenland and Siberia were much WARMER than normal!

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/the-winter-of-196263


Here are some local pics -



WINDSOR

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READING - Caversham Bridge

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OXFORD

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Remember it well. Worst winter I have ever experienced. My Dad was a plumber and he was out all the time helping people out with burst pipes.

And our school was closed for a couple of days too, so it wasn't all bad news. ;)
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