January 1951–Snow, Heavy Rain, Storms & Floods
By Paul Homewood
Extreme weather battered Britain throughout January 1951, with barely any let up from start to finish.
Heavy snow, heavy rain, storms, floods and gales.
Gale force winds of up to 85 mph occurred somewhere in the country on seventeen days; even Manchester had winds of 73 mph. Particularly rain between the 10th and 12th led to flooding on the Thames and in Yorkshire.
The first week of the month alone had two days of heavy snowfalls and gales, followed by another three days of heavy rain and more gales.
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/collection_7c59f237-7add-4d78-9c99-4e4210a926e1/
https://cbhe.hydrology.org.uk/
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/84530/
As a footnote, according to the Henley Standard, it had been such a wet winter that the Thames was still flooded in April:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Someone in the bureaucracy is going to be in trouble for not deleting all those records. Their response is likely to be to cover their eyes and ears and sing la la la as loud as possible to ignore the data.
That footnote is telling, “It is many years since Thames Valley flooding has continued so long”. Today this would be replaced by a single word “unprecedented”
They say that every cloud has a silver lining
These storms may have made people stay indoors in January 1951
As I was born some nine months later on August 1952 they certainly have a lot to answer for.
That’s nineteen months later – are you an elephant?
p.s. I was born 9 months and 11 days after November 5th 1942, at a time that Guy Fawkes Nights were – obviously – totally forbidden. Insert your own joke about my parents/bonfire night/big bangs……
The assertion that the Thames flood of 1951 was the worst for many years is surprising. Surely the 1947 Thames flood was worse?
The reason why climate change alarmists target the young is not because they have more of a future to be scared about but because they don’t have the lived experience to know that this has all happened before.
Great stuff Paul.
All that climate change and the poor souls didn’t even know it!
GB News had a reporter on Exmoor who commented that Isha was the 11th or something names storm of the season while failing to mention this juvenile practice only began in 2016.