I see the weather forecast is for colder temperatures to return to the UK this week and next along with rain etc. Ah well, the high pressure was nice while it lasted and thankfully no big freezes so far this Winter. The photo above shows a big freeze from history, 1894 to be precise when the Thames in London froze over (as it has many time in the past) it seems inconceivable these days that cold spells could last for many months, as this one did, from December 1894 to March 1895 and the ice in the river was in places 7 feet thick! The last time we had a severe cold spell like that was probably the Winter I was born 1962/3, thankfully I remember nothing about it and (according to my parents and grandparents) somehow it didn't seem like such a big deal to the people at the time, even though it lasted 3 months.
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