Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 190, 11 February 1895, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE INTENSE COLD in ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE STAR. Sir, — I can scarcely credit the correctness of the press telegram published in this evening's Star reporting that the thermometer lias registered a temperature of 10 degrees below zero in the midland counties of England — that is 12 degrees of frost. Such a low temperature in England is quite unprecedented in nay experience of tho observation of the weather, now exceeding a term of over 60 years, and I don't remember ever reading any report of such iuteuse cold in England. I once, in January, 1838, registered a temperature of 4 degrees below zero at Highbury, in the outskirts of London, and again a similar temperature at Moseley, near Birmingham, in tho wiutcr of 1860-61, and it was during that winter that the severity of the frost killed hardy forest trees, and' at the same time I lost two magnificent Portugal laurels, measuring about three feet in girth, and which had withstood the severity of between 60 and 70 winters. What, therefore, may be expected will be tho result of a temperature of ten degrees below zero i* I also registered one degree below zero at Leamington, in Warwickshire, in the month of December, 1879, the last month E spent in England. I seldom registered m England a temperature much below 18 or 20 degrees of frost. During the last twelve years in Feilding the lowest temperatures I haA r e registered have been 21 degrees, or 11 degrees of frost, in 1891, 24 degrees in 1883 and 1592, 25 degrees in 1885 and 1894, 26 degrees iv 1887, 1890, and 1893, 28 degrees iv 1«88, and 29 degrees in 1885. I am, &c. Saml. Goodhkhkhk. l-7>ilrHn.( <H,li Fcliriuirv. 1595.