| Weather:
this week in history |
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week in weather history... |
| | Kent
has experienced the harshest of weather conditions over the years.
Local historian Bob Ogley takes us on a trip down memory lane
- a look at this week's weather down the ages. |
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DATE |
YEAR |
WEATHER |
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18th
March |
1947 |
Warm air finally arrived to melt all the snow as temperature
rosed to a high 57F, the people of Kent were mightily relieved
that the bitterly hard winter of 1947 was over. In towns and
villages, it was the worst eight weeks to endure the endless
grey skies, raging blizzards, subzero temperatures, power cuts,
strikes and frozen pipes. On top of that, coal had been in short
supply and rations were cut. |
| 19th
March | 1888 |
A severe powdery, drifting snowstorm blocked railway cuttings
in East Kent and overwhelmed the streets of Dover.
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| 21st
March | 1948 | As
the great snow thawed and turned to rain, Rivers Medway, Darent,
Stour and Rother burst their banks, inundating farmland and
causing the worst flooding in the county for 20 years. In Tonbridge
and Maidstone the floodwater easily overlapped the bridges and
rushed into High Street. People had to be lowered from their
bedrooms windows into boats in Fairmeadow, Maidstone and the
Corporation's electrically works and Mason's Waterside Brewery
were under several feet. The worst area of Medway valley at
Balding, East Peckham, and Beltring. The hop farm was waterlogged
and most of the road were impassable. |
| 22nd
March | 1913 |
Hythe was battered by a storm which pulverised the promenade
along the coast towards Dymchurch. |
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