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from Steve Jackson contains these words:

I think you will find the winter in question was 1962-63!

Steve Jackson,
Bablake Weather Station,
Coventry, UK
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Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or 1947/8?

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