BITTEREST FOR 19 YEARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 3

BITTEREST FOR 19 YEARS

EASTER WEATHER CONDITIONS IN EUROPE LONDON, April 15. Snow and hail and rain, thunder and lightning and keen winds, made Easter’s weather the bitterest for 19 years over 400X2-0 square miles of Europe yesterday. There was to*mggamng oil the- North Downs: 14 (legs, of frost in parts of France. Trees were struck by lightning in Hampshire;, Berlin. \ ienna shivered in it north-east wind. Bale, wan sunshine burst- fitlully' between the showers. But- many holidaymakers abandoned the seaside, hurried home from mid-winter temperatures. Thirty-seven degrees —only live from freezing point -was London's lowest in tlie early morning, in the afternoon too. Bight down to the south and south-west coasts, from the midlands and the Lincolnshire fens, reports ol wild went hoi came to the Air Ministry from 64 stations. Vet Scotland, the north ol England, parts of the south-east, had as much as 10 hours’ sunshine. And they picked 6ilh. of strawberries in Lympne Castle gardens. . An 83-year-old widow. Mrs. Jeff, was found dead, victim of the cold, near Hack ford. Bedale-. Yorkshire. She had left home on Saturday to visit her daughter, but bad not. arrived. Road accidents were fewer than usual; traffic was sparse. In some districts drivers were held up by snow-covered

windscreens. The most unusual feature ol the weather was the comparatively high temperature existing just before the snow fell. This was caused by abnormally low temperatures in Ihe upper air. due to cold currents from the Baltic. Normally the snow would have turned to rain.