http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weat ... 0_1899.htm
MAJOR THAMES-VALLEY FLOOD
1. Major FLOODING across the mid/upper Thames Valley (i.e. non-tidal leg). The differences above the normal ("summer") prediction at various points were: Oxford +3.7ft; Reading +6.8ft; Maidenhead +7.9ft; Windsor +8.9ft; Kingston +11.5ft. (TEC).
At the upper Thames recording point of Shillingford Wharf, the FLOOD-LEVEL was 46.96m above OD, the second highest at this point, (and up to 2003), in that record. The Thames burst its banks and affected scores of towns / hamlets along the river, and many thousands were driven from their homes. The FLOODS were stated at the time to be so spectacular and widespread as to be regarded as the greatest floods ever, and a 'yardstick' by which future inundations are measured.
Using the EWP series, the anomaly for October + November ~ 130% of the all-series average.
1. Exceptionally COLD/WINTRY from 30/12/1894 to 05/03/1895. To horticulturists and ice skaters in East Anglia, it was the winter of the ' twelve week frost '. Thousands skated on the frozen Serpentine in London, including a detachment of soldiers. Records from Cambridge Observatory show that there were actually air frosts on 70 of the 84 nights between 26th December 1894 and 20th March 1895. In particular, the mean air temperature recorded in London from the 26th January to 19th February was around -3degC: From the 9th to the 17th February, the whole of the Thames was reported as more or less blocked by ice-floes, some 6 to 7ft thick (circa 2m). [ It is not clear where this observation was made, but I suspect that this was referring to the Pool of London - a very important port for transfer of goods.] Water mains were frozen well below the surface to a depth of 2 to 3 ft (just under 1m).
The month of February 1895 stands out at Oxford as having the LOWEST AVERAGE MIN TEMP (minus 5.6 degC) and the highest number of GROUND FROSTS (27) for any February in the 113 years to 1993 at the Radcliffe Observatory. From the 9th to the 17th February the whole of the Thames was more or less blocked by ice-floes, some of them 6 or 7 feet thick. The non-tidal mid/upper Thames frozen at various times, with reports of an Ox being roasted on the Thames at Kingston.
2. Second COLDEST winter in a Manchester long-period record (from 1888), comprising Manchester (Prestwich) 1888-1900; Manchester (Whitworth Park) 1901-1941; & Manchester (Ringway) from 1942.
The coldest winter was, as in many places in England & Wales, in 1962/63. However, in the CET series, the winter of 1894/95 did not appear in the top 7 cold winters, so the fact that Manchester stands out is interesting.
3. The UK lowest (known) air temperature was recorded during this winter: -27.2degC at Braemar (Grampian) on the 11th February 1895. [ It is equalled by the same value at the same place recorded on the 10th January, 1982. ]
And in USA are a very dry and cold year appear to be:
http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1946/46_4_malin.htm
May 15, 1894: The dust caused by high wind was terrible. [35]
The years 1894 and 1895 appear to have been the climax of the 1890's in the dust storm department and the frequency and severity of the dust storms led to scientific studies of their behavior. A good example is to be found in an analysis by J. A. Udden in Popular Science Monthly, New York, v. 49 (1896), pp. 655-664, of 38
http://www.nps.gov/bicy/pphtml/subenvir ... ors21.html
The lowest temperature ever recorded at Fort Myers was 25°F in December 1894.
http://www.olden-times.com/OldtimeNebra ... ory6a.html
The Great Drought.-- Then came the year of the great drought, 1890. No rain fell for weeks. Not only in western Nebraska, but over the whole state and other western states, this was true. Nearly all the crops were failures. In the older parts of Nebraska there were hard times, but the people had something saved from former years and managed to get along. In western Nebraska many of the people had spent all they had in getting settled on their farms. There was great suffering all over the West. When the legislature met in 1891, it appropriated $200,000 with which to buy food and seed for the settlers. On July 26, 1894, a hot wind from the southwest again ruined the corn crop and injured other crops. The legislature of 1895 appropriated $250,000 more to aid the settlers in the western part of the state. In spite of this, thousands were discouraged and left their homes to find work elsewhere.
The Panic of 1893 -- Hard Times Again.-- A great panic came in 1893 while western Nebraska was being settled, just as the panic of 1873 came when eastern Nebraska was being settled. Banks broke, factories shut down, merchants failed all over the country. Prices of farmers' produce again fell to the lowest point and, although food was so cheap, working men in the cities could scarcely buy enough to keep from starving, because they had no work. Thousands of men out of employment gathered in armies and marched across the country to Washington to demand that Congress should give them work. In Nebraska whole townships in the western part were deserted so that one could ride all day finding nothing but empty houses and fields growing up to weeds. These hard times lasted from 1890 until about 1900.
Well, appear to be the 1894 year are very anomale...
Where is possible to find info about the period 1394-1396??? I need to have info for compare, is for one investigation...
Sorry for the bothers and thanks in advance...
