Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

10cm of snow can cause extreme conditions to arise in the UK.

 

[colly]

People who live in Namibia have 47 words for naming snow.

One of the words is.... Whathefookisthis?

 

[bruce1530]

Craid David has two first names, and is therefore not to be trusted.

Craig David does indeed have two first names. But that’s only his stage name. His real name is Smith Jones. Since these are both surnames, he is double-trustworthy.

 

[raleighnut]

Craig David does indeed have two first names. But that’s only his stage name. His real name is Smith Jones. Since these are both surnames, he is double-trustworthy.

I've got a mate with 2 surnames, Dawson Smith.


View: https://youtu.be/7Hsxz07sEfY

 

[classic33]

10cm of snow can cause extreme conditions to arise in the UK.

That much!!


In February 1963 a 36-hour blizzard caused heavy drifting snow in most parts of the country. Drifts reached 20 foot in some areas and there were gale-force winds reaching up to 81 mph.

 

[lutonloony]

I was born then, but don't remember the snow

 

[raleighnut]

I was born then, but don't remember the snow

Same here

 

[Drago]

I can remember in the Seventies snowdrifts reaching halfway up the ground floor windows.

 

[Dirk]

I can remember in the Seventies snowdrifts reaching halfway up the ground floor windows.

We had snow up to our window sills in 1963.




We lived in a 2nd floor flat.

 

[Profpointy]

We had snow up to our window sills in 1963.




We lived in a 2nd floor flat.

I understand there were icebergs, or at least ice on the sea in Swansea bay that year. I was a baby so don't quite remember

 

[classic33]

As heard on early morning news,
Yesterday was the coldest day of March this year.

 

[classic33]

There have been more than twenty-one earthquakes in the UK in the last fifty days.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There have been more than twenty-one earthquakes in the UK in the last fifty days.

Sales of baked beans are at an all time high.

 

[Dave7]

In the snow storm of 1963 one snowflake was weighed at 1Lb 6 oz.

 

[classic33]

The largest snowflakes on record were 15 inches (38 cm) in diameter and 8 inches thick. They fell on Fort Keogh, in eastern Montana on 28 January 1887.