UK residents face worst snowstorm in a decade this year, but it's still short of record weather disaster “The Big Freeze” I mentioned.
The Blizzard of 1962, which is quite understandable. “The Big Freeze” It lasted three months and claimed the lives of just under a hundred thousand British people.
Over the past few days and weeks, countless meteorologists have been warning Britons of the severe weather to come, and telling them how to prepare for the risks of a harsh winter in the coming weeks, with severe night-time frosts expected across the country. So far, the Met Office has been unwilling to provide precise figures on how much snow is expected and which areas will be most affected. However, it is a fact that the Met Office is forecasting an “increasing risk” for the rest of the week.
The risk of snow is higher than at any time since 2010, says James Madden, a forecaster at Exacta Weather, who predicts the cold weather will “stick around longer.” “In addition to the risk of snow, severe overnight frosts are also expected, with the coldest parts of the country potentially seeing air chills of -15C in the coming weeks.
However, this weather challenge will be next to nothing. For the horror of 1962 and 1963 In comparison – when the blizzard lasted for almost three months without interruption, as a result, according to the reported data, 90 thousand people lost their lives. The temperature dropped to -22 degrees Celsius that winter; planes, trains, trucks and cars did not travel (because they simply could not).
Schools were closed, people were confined to their homes, and rivers, lakes and even the sea froze.
Birds fell dead from the icy sky, and the ground was too hard for anyone to be buried in.
Naturally, this caused great damage to agriculture as well, farming became impossible, prices of products rose dramatically, and some goods became unavailable. With no central heating and limited supplies of solid fuel, people shivered in their frozen homes.
