Those who are of a similar age to myself will remember the severe winter of '63. What is often not remembered, is the rather chilly preceding summer.
Have a read of this report.
Meteorology and Climatology are closely linked sciences, but how they react with each other is largely unpredictable. I remember some years ago, a report was published by the scientists involved with drilling test bores in polar ice-caps. Although It had previously been believed the transition from warm periods to severely cold spanned thousands of years, the polar ice core samples revealed a different picture.
At the end of that television program, one of the scientists stated the transition from a warm period to a mini ice-age could be as short as eight to ten years. I'm no expert on these matters, but I do wonder how modern day Britain would cope with a winter of '63.
Have a read of this report.
Meteorology and Climatology are closely linked sciences, but how they react with each other is largely unpredictable. I remember some years ago, a report was published by the scientists involved with drilling test bores in polar ice-caps. Although It had previously been believed the transition from warm periods to severely cold spanned thousands of years, the polar ice core samples revealed a different picture.
At the end of that television program, one of the scientists stated the transition from a warm period to a mini ice-age could be as short as eight to ten years. I'm no expert on these matters, but I do wonder how modern day Britain would cope with a winter of '63.
