Yesterday's weather
'Since the 1860s, the winters have been wetter and the summers drier. Many people remember the droughts of 1976, when there were widespread water shortages.'
'When you weigh up all the evidence - using records from trees, corals and ice cores, as well as written reports, 1998 was probably the warmest year of the last millennium.'
And the coldest year? That was in 1601, when there were frosts across England each morning in June. The period was called the 'Little Ice Age'.
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