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J Barber wrote Funny old winter.


As someone who very well remembers the winter of 62/63 when snow lay on the ground from just after Christmas until March, with no thaw, and that from the Midlands to the South coast (and probably north of that, but that's not so unusual) I find the winter this year quite mild. It's only since about 1850/ 60 that the Little Ice Age has sufficiently eased off that we have begun to assume snow free winters in the south of the country, with snow an exception.


Interestingly all the 'warmest since records began' reports we hear nowadays don't bother to mention that most of the records they are referring to weren't started to be kept until just after the Little Ice Age had ended (mid 19th century) - i.e. don't take account of the Medieval Warming, the Roman Warming or the Minoan Warming over the last 3 millenia, but do reflect a natural warming up following an extended (300 year) 'cold snap'.


Equally reports of 'unexpected' cold snaps (coldest since records began etc.) ignore the Litte Ice Age, the post Roman dark age cooling, the pre-Roman hegemony cooling (c600BC) etc. etc.


The 'records' are not those included in chronicles which reflect different climates (i.e. the Viking occupation of Greenland with close to temporate farming methods, temporary (150 years or so) absence of perma frost in the region etc., productive vinyards in North England) but scientific records using calibrated and 'accurate' instrumentation, together with regular recording of climate measures, which only became widely available in (broadly) Victorian times.

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