Heatwave then snow: September 1919

[knightstorm]

The opposite thing happened in the build up to the 1976 heat wave, my auntie & uncle told me that the last week of May it was -4 celsius, and the day they got married in the 1st week of June it was 80 farenheit!

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From Guardian of 11th September

20th September

 

Observer of 21st September

 

 

Guardian of 22nd September

 

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From the Telegraph: 12th and 22nd September

                                

 

The Evening Standard 11th, 12th and 20th September

                            

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Other newspaper clippings

                                   

 

                                                            

[sundog]

Must have been an interesting autumn.  Wasn't November 1919 one of the coldest of the 20th century? 

Edited September 5, 2022 by sundog

[LetItSnow!]

On 05/09/2022 at 15:40, sundog said:

Must have been an interesting autumn.  Wasn't November 1919 one of the coldest of the 20th century? 

The autumn is the coldest on record or at least of the 21st century. November 1919 wasn’t the coldest of the century but ranks amongst the coldest. I think the coldest is November 1925. There were an unusual frequency of extremely cold Novembers in the 1910s and 1920s and most of them were followed by mild Decembers.

[Frigid]

6 hours ago, LetItSnow! said:

The autumn is the coldest on record or at least of the 21st century. November 1919 wasn’t the coldest of the century but ranks amongst the coldest. I think the coldest is November 1925. There were an unusual frequency of extremely cold Novembers in the 1910s and 1920s and most of them were followed by mild Decembers.

Nov 1925 was pretty cold with a CET of 3.6 but I think you meant Nov 1915, which had an astonishing CET of 2.8C.. the anti-Nov 2015 . The winter that followed was exceptionally mild though, January had a vile CET of 7.6C... 

On topic, Sep 1919 looks fascinating.. from one extreme to another. Wouldn't mind something similar to happen this autumn.