Historical weather records

[csh]

I have just been on the website esspeegee gave in reply and I am finding reading the weather as reported it seems to me that 'what goes round, comes round' as the weather seems to go in circles, I have only read from 1800 onwards but so much for 'global warming'.  The only exception would be the amount of snow we now have or dont have.  Imagine how we would cope with the amounts reported!

[MrsLizzy]

Re snow and us coping or not: Bill Bryson mentions this in his book "Notes from a Small Island".  He talks of a news report about a "blizzard" that caused - gasp! - six inches of snow and paints a hilarious picture of Brits struggling through "snow drifts - some of them up to their ankles"!  He's so funny - I can't help wondering what he'd make of us lot.