Climate and Weather by John Kington

Author:John Kington [Kington, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-00-741109-2
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2010-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

1660s

Continental (?). 1660 Volcanic dust veil (DVI 2100), eruptions (Ecuador, Peru, Banda Sea and Iceland). Very cold winter. * 18 December (1659): inferred severe storm. Inferred cyclonic situation, storm-force gales in north England. January: cold, heavy snowfall. Mild spring. * March: inferred severe storm. Inferred cyclonic situation/severe gale-force winds, North Sea storm surge, high tides and heavy rain in the Thames Basin combined to produce severe sea and river floods at London, sea floods also at Dover. 30 March: easterly winds, heavy rain, severe floods, houses and streets inundated in London (perhaps the same March storm as given above). Cool summer. Average autumn temperatures – 21-22 November: severe floods, Thames Valley. 1661 Very mild winter – 18 December (1660): storm, strong winds, rain in north England.

It is strange what weather we have had all this winter – no cold at all, but the ways are dusty, and the flies fly up and down, and rose bushes are full of leaves, such a time of year as was never known in this world before.

Samuel Pepys, 31 January 1661

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