A CHILLY FORECAST.
COLDEST IN 400 YEARS. WILL THAMES FREEZE OVER? (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 24. The coming winter may be the coldest in England for nearly 400 years. Abbe Gabriel, famous French meteorologist, has made researchs that have convinced him that severe winters come in cycles of 372 years. And so the worst winter since 1564 is due. If the Abbe's forecast comes ♦rue, it will mean that Britain will sample some of those wintry wonders described by Pepys in the seventeenth century, such as: The Thames frozen solid as a carriage way; an ox roasted whole on the solid ice; floos and bergs forming in the English Channel; ironbound frost-locked land and water from John o' Groat's to Land's End. While British weather experts generally con limn the Abbe's forecast for a hard winter, there is one notable dissentient —Gipsy Petulengro, the seer. Broadcasting last week, he said the coming winter would be quite mild. Who is right? In two months we shall know for ourselves.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 274, 18 November 1936, Page 22
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