Winter of 1894–95 in the United Kingdom

The winter of 1894–1895 was severe for the British Isles with a Central England temperature (CET) of 1.17 °C or 34.1 °F.[1] Many climatologists have come to view this winter as the end of the Little Ice Age and the culmination of a decade of harsh winters in Britain. Whereas the average CET for the 10 winters from 1885–1886 to 1894–1895 was 2.87 °C or 37.2 °F, no winter with a CET under 3.0 °C or 37.4 °F followed for 22 years and no month as cold as February or January 1895 until 1940.[2] In contrast, between 1659 and 1894, no spell with every winter CET above 3.0 °C or 37.4 °F had lasted longer than 12 winters.[1][b]

Although this winter, which featured the lowest North Atlantic oscillation index between 1882 and 1962, with lower values recorded only in 1880/1881, 1962/1963, and 1968/1969 [3] affected most of Europe and North America very severely. The severe winter led to mass unemployment and severe disruptions to shipping on the River Thames, which froze over. Most workers were left without sustenance, and in industrial centres, large soup kitchens were widespread[4] to feed these people.

Numerous skating festivals also were organised to take advantage of the unusually cold and sunny weather, with up to 50,000 people skating on the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park and speed skating races being widely popular and generating money to be used for relief of the poor, and in some cases to provide them with temporary work as vendors for spectators.[5]

Coal supplies dwindled as transporting coal by river was impossible, whilst many recently introduced exotic plants were killed by the cold.[6]

December 1894

December 1894 was mild for the most part and the first three weeks were dominated by southwesterly winds, so much so that primroses and daisies were in bloom during the third week.[4] During the last week, though, when the winds veered to the northwest, colder weather arrived with frosts and snow showers to exposed areas.

Seven inches (0.18 m) of snow were reported in Norfolk at the end of the month. The average monthly temperature over central England was 5.1 °C or 41.2 °F.

January 1895

Troughs in the flow gave snow showers to most parts and many places had a snow cover, and Oxford had 3 inches (0.08 m) by the 6th. High pressure to the west moved across the UK and under the clear skies and with a deep snow cover, very low minima were recorded with −11 °C (12.2 °F) in parts of Norfolk and −18 °C or −0.4 °F in parts of the Scottish Highlands. Freezing fog formed and was slow to clear, a maximum of −5 °C or 23 °F was recorded at Ross-on-Wye in freezing fog.[4]

Milder air tried to push in from the Atlantic Ocean with a system and a heavy snowfall resulted across the UK, with depths of snow of 8 to 15 centimetres (3.1 to 5.9 in) being widely reported.

The Atlantic air finally broke through, and a thaw resulted in flooding in a number of areas, as temperatures rose double figures in the south, Kew recording 11 °C (51.8 °F).

The northwesterlies returned on the 21st with a low over the near continent and its active cold front moving across southeast England bringing thunderstorms, snow, and hail. The northerly flow for a few days and conditions were severe over northern Scotland with heavy drifting snow, and snow fell elsewhere exposed to the north wind. Thundersnow occurred widely on the 23rd with the passage of another strong frontal system.[7]

The average monthly temperature was 0.2 °C or 32.4 °F, which is the 26th-coldest January ever recorded since 1659 and 16th-coldest since 1766 – though only 1940, 1963, and 1979 have been colder since.[8] January 1895 had heavy snowfall produce above-average water-equivalent precipitation – England and Wales averaged 100.9 millimetres or 3.97 inches, which is more than in any colder month since the EWP series began – except in the west of Scotland, which was in a rain shadow from the prevailing northeasterly winds and received only a quarter of normal rainfall. Despite the heavy snowfall, sunshine duration was above normal throughout except for the east coast and adjacent slopes,[9] with the west and southwest having up to twice their long-term average insolation.[7]

February 1895

A very cold easterly flow controlled the weather over the UK and most of Europe, and severe frosts with minima of −13 °C or 8.6 °F occurred at Loughborough and −15 °C or 5.0 °F was recorded at Chester. Heavy snow showers came with the easterly with Yorkshire and Lincolnshire getting the brunt of the showers, South Shields was severely affected by 15 hours of continuous snowfall forcing the closure of the shipyard. Small polar lows affected the west with snowfalls, Douglas on the Isle of Man recorded 8 inches (0.20 m) of snow. However, away from the east coast, February 1895 was exceptionally dry and very sunny, with some southern areas recording no measurable precipitation and the England and Wales Precipitation value totaling only 11.1 millimetres or 0.44 inches of water equivalent – the sixth-driest February and equal 28th-driest any month since the series begin in 1766.[10] Over 150 hours of sunshine were reported from Jersey, over 110 hours from Sussex and Hampshire, and around 80 hours in the north,[11] figures that in the south rival February 2008 as the sunniest on record.[12]

As the high over Scandinavia moved over the UK; a phenomenally cold and dry spell with exceptionally low minima followed. Temperatures of −20 °C or −4 °F or less were regularly recorded, −27.2 °C or −17.0 °F was recorded at Braemar on the 11th, the lowest-ever UK minimum,[13] −24 °C or −11.2 °F at Buxton also on the 11th, −22.2 °C or −8.0 °F in Rutland. −12.7 °C or 9.1 °F was the mean average temperature for Wakefield in Yorkshire between the 5th and the 14th. Canals, rivers, lakes and ponds froze in the severe cold, the Manchester Ship Canal was iced over, ice floes were in the Thames, and the Thames estuary itself was impassable because of ice.

An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people skated on the Serpentino yesterday. The thickness of the ice averaged 6½ inches.... In Finsbury Park the ice in places was no less than 10 inches (25 cm) thick.

Many people died of hypothermia or respiratory conditions.[14]

... coroner for East London, held inquests at Poplar on the bodies of four persons whose death was due to the cold weather. At St. Clement Dane’s Vestry-hall, at the Westminster Union, at Chelsea Town Hall, and at the old Kensington Town Hall, similar cases were investigated.... Out of eight inquests ... five were stated by the medical witnesses to be due to the severity of the weather.

By the end of February, the weekly death rate from pneumonia and related illnesses was 950 per week higher than the average for the period.[15]

The lack of snow meant that frost penetrated unusually deep into soils throughout southern England. Gas and water pipes fractured, creating major supply problems: Northampton was blackened out when the worst of these fractures cut out the town's gas supply, whilst heaving from the frost made most major roads and railways impassable.[4]

Record minima were set for these dates in February 1895:[16]

  • 7th: −21.7 °C or −7.1 °F
  • 8th: −25.0 °C or −13.0 °F
  • 9th: −23.9 °C or −11.0 °F
  • 10th: −25.6 °C or −14.1 °F
  • 11th: −27.2 °C or −17.0 °F
  • 12th: −20.6 °C or −5.1 °F
  • 13th: −21.9 °C or −7.4 °F
  • 14th: −21.7 °C or −7.1 °F
  • 16th: −23.9 °C or −11.0 °F
  • 17th: −23.9 °C or −11.0 °F
  • 18th: −23.9 °C or −11.0 °F
  • 19th: −22.2 °C or −8.0 °F

The average monthly temperature was −1.8 °C or 28.8 °F, the second-coldest February ever recorded,[8] whilst the minimum temperature with the clear skies of −5.1 °C or 22.8 °F is the lowest for any month since records began in 1878.[17]

Thaw

As the high began to slip westwards, milder Atlantic air slowly encroached and temperatures crept above freezing for the first time in a few weeks; London had its first frost-free night on the 21st for three weeks. Maxima were finally returning to close to normal by the end of the month. March 1895, however, had another cold snap during the first week with heavier snow showers than observed during the coldest periods four weeks beforehand, but a more permanent thaw took place from the second week without major flooding.

Coldest spells of the winter (CET means)

  • Coldest daily CET maximum: −4.5 °C or 23.9 °F 6 February
  • Coldest daily CET minimum: −13.5 °C or 7.7 °F 8 February
  • Mildest daily CET maximum: 11.2 °C or 52.2 °F on 13 December

Notes

b The longest previous spell of winters above 3.0 °C or 37.4 °F had been from 1716/1717 to 1727/1728.

References

  1. ^ a b Met Office; Seasonal Hadley Centre Mean CET
  2. ^ ‘The Last Thames Freeze in London, February 1895’ in Nobbs, Patrick; The Story of the British and Their Weather: Cloudy with a Chance of Rain
  3. ^ Barrow, Elaine and Hulme Mike; Climates of the British Isles: Present, Past and Future; p. 412 ISBN 1317973755
  4. ^ a b c d Currie, Ian; ‘The great frost: The winter of 1894–95’; Weather; 50(3) (March 1995); pp. 66–73
  5. ^ Pike, W.S.; ‘Rivalry on ice: Skating and the memorable 1894/95 winter’; Weather, Volume 50, Issue 2 (February 1995), pp. 48–54
  6. ^ ‘Great Frost of 1895’, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information: Royal Gardens, Kew. Vol. 1896, No. 109 (1896), pp. 5–10.
  7. ^ a b Met Office; "MWR_1895"
  8. ^ a b Met Office; Monthly Ranked Hadley Centre Mean CET
  9. ^ Manley, Gordon; ‘The Durham Meteorological Record, 1847–1940’; Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 67 (October 1941); pp. 363–380
  10. ^ Met Office; Hadley Center Ranked England and Wales Precipitation
  11. ^ Met Office; Monthly Weather Report – February 1895
  12. ^ Met Office; Southwest England and South Wales February Sunshine
  13. ^ TORRO: British extremes: minimum temperatures
  14. ^ ‘The Extraordinary Frost: Deaths from the Cold’; The Times, 14 February 1895 (p. 4, cols. 3–4)
  15. ^ ‘The Frost Of 1895’, British Medical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 1790 (Apr. 20, 1895), p. 886. JSTOR 20215895
  16. ^ "TORRO | Extremes ~ Minimum temperature date records". www.torro.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  17. ^ Met Office; Hadley Centre Ranked Central England Minimum Temperature

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