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- 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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. Coal supplies dwindled as transporting coal by river was impossible, whilst many recently introduced exotic plants were killed by the cold. (en)
- Vintern 1894–1895 i Storbritannien var mycket sträng, med på 1,2C. Det ledde till massarbetslöshet, och problem för sjötrafiken på Themsen. (sv)
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- Vintern 1894–1895 i Storbritannien var mycket sträng, med på 1,2C. Det ledde till massarbetslöshet, och problem för sjötrafiken på Themsen. (sv)
- 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. 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. 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. (en)
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