Why does the thames no longer freeze

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Know Truth Behind Viral Pictures. River Thames is frozen! Well above the lock at Teddington it is Oh dear, a large part of the River Thames has frozen over for the first time in 60 years.

Makes one wonder about the minimal sunspot activity some keep pointing to. It must be hugely disappointing to the global warming catastrophists. I feel for them. ClimateRealism pic. Taken this morning!! Modern times, however, have seen nothing compared to January , when the last Frost Fair on the Thames was held.

Then Londoners were able dance, play skittles, and drink purl — a mix of gin and wormwood wine similar to vermouth — from pop-up pubs and gingerbread sellers who set up stalls on the thick ice. Oxen were roasted on spits, and an elephant was even marched across the river alongside Blackfriars Bridge.

At the time of the first frost fair, in , the river froze over for six weeks. London is unlikely to witness such a spectacle again. I share them today for several reasons, firstly because they are very beautiful photos, published here for the first time. Secondly in memory of my dear dad. Thirdly because the offer an insight into a very different climate, one we have left behind.

In I was a 9 year old and remember well just how cold it was. I also remember we were all told, by government experts, that we were heading for a mini ice age. Certainly no one superglued bums to pavement. We servived. I remember the winter of as I was at prep school in Ipswich. Our bottles of milk that we had at break were always frozen but we all made long slides in the playground. We made a giant snow ball which was about 5 feet high which we proposed to roll down a slope.

It became too big to move though. It was a pity when the cold ended. I was three years old and living in the eastern United States in I find this interesting because the eastern USA also had an extremely cold winter that year. I still have an early memory of that very cold winter. As I was young it meant little to me at the time, I do remember the snow, loads of it, I built a huge snowman in my garden almost as tall as me and there was still some of it left in the June.

I also remember there were no snow days off school, as we have now, I had to walk to school every day through the snow. At the time it was great fun for kids, snowball fights, ice slides. I believe we are now just in another warm period. While there no games for most of the winter term because the ground was frozen solid, my grammar school in rural Worcestershire never closed. Curiously we also had no snow! Re the Global Warming argument above: All this info is correct.