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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Actually, according to the Met Office, December was an average of 0.5 degrees colder than the average temperature for the same period over the last thirty years.
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Yes I think the fact that most people have central heating and far better insulated houses has made the 'comfort level' inside, misleading as to how cold it acually is outside. I too remember ice on the inside of the bedroom window almost every winter as a kid. Getting out of bed was bloody murderous it was so cold. We didn't even have an 'all night burner' in the fireplace so the house was virtually freezing first thing in the morning. Then, most people could only afford to have a coal fire in one room so that when you moved out of it you were almost frozen immediately. No-one wanted to leave the warm living room to go upstairs to a freezing cold bedroom. Bluddy 'ell it were 'ard when AB and me were kids!!!!