Dave Cornwell wrote:

Looking at the historic charts earlier I noticed that there were several,
especially early on, that didn't look that cold. I know there were several
threatened thaws (probably based on expected evolution of those charts)that
didn't happen. After a very snowy start I seem to remember much of the UK and
Europe remained snow covered. How much would that have depressed the
temperature had there not been such widespread cover? I wonder if the same
charts showed up now whether the same expectation of cold would materialise.
I doubt it, with Europe being relatively mild still, sea temperatures warmer
and I suppose +1C for GW. Dave

The excellent web-site on the 1962/63 winter created by the late Mike Tullett
is still 'live'. It can be found at

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mtullett/1962-63/

It includes daily synoptic charts scanned from the Met Office Daily Weather
Report.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org