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The Surrey Weather Book
ISBN 0-9516710-6-5 124 pages Price £12.95 A century of storms, floods and freezes.
The Dorset Weather Book
ISBN 0-9531603-0-0 100 pages Price £10.50
Includes a chapter on the record breaking Martinstown deluge of the 18th July 1955 when 279 mm of rain fell in just 9 hours.
Other books in the county series include Berkshire, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Norfolk and Suffolk, plus Sussex.
Red Sky at Night– Weather sayings for all Seasons.
ISBN 0-9516710-2-2 52 pages Price £5.95. Revised Nov. 2005. A yellow sky to end the day means wind and rain are on the way When the wind backs and the glass falls be on your guard for rain and squalls. April has the face of a monk back claws of a cat. Is the St. Swithin’s legend true? And what about a red sky? Is it rain or shine?
Frost, Freezes and Fairs– Chronicles of the frozen Thames and harsh Winters in Britain since 1000 AD.
ISBN 0-9516710-8-1 90 pages Includes 74 pictures, illustrations and engravings. Price £8.95
Read about the Great Winter of 1683/84 when the Thames froze for 10 weeks and a great Frost Fair spread upstream from London Bridge. Even the King and his family attended and had their names printed on a quarto sheet. The brutal frost of 1739/40 when just after Christmas a violent gale with temperatures below 15F froze the river Thames in just 3 days. Why did the Thames fail to freeze at London Bridge in the winter of 1962/63 when temperatures averaged below freezing –December to February. |
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10 Weather QuestionsWhen was an ice axe needed in Kent during August?
Where is Britain’s oldest wind vane?
When did 105 tornadoes sweep across England?
Where in Britain has snow fallen on 11 days during July?
What is phenology?
Where and when was there an international ski jumping competition in London? Where in the British Isles is air frost a big event? When would watering cans stretch to the Moon and back 3 times? When were` fuddling tents’ and a `Dutch whimsie' in the middle of the Thames? Why was part of the M25 empty yet there was neither an accident nor road works?
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