More harsh winters

The winters of 1947 and 1963 are infamous in Britain and often used as a benchmark to measure other winters. What would be the impact if winters like this were more common, say on the order of at least one in every five year period and some times three in the same period.
 
maybe we'd be better equipped to deal with snow :D

I think the government would increase spending on weather equipment like snowploughs and gritters.
 
It's going to have more of an effect than that. Less immigration? More emigration? Lots more 10 pound poms in Australia? Transport links of all kinds, air, sea, rail, road and canals?
Housing problems, many houses were already unfit, how are they to be replaced? The design of houses would need to be looked at. Industry would be affected, even if it's just by people being unable to get to work on time.

In 1963 my mum was without running water for three months, must have been fun with my brother still in nappies. The pipes froze. Imagine that happening every couple of years.
 
This might be considered a geologic POD.

Weather patterns have changed in the not too distant past. In 1800 we were still in the Little Ice Age, it's not to much of a stretch to have things revert back to that. In 1977 the big climate scare was man made global cooling, now it's global warming with the ironic twist that increased Greenland meltwater could shut off the gulf stream. The climate is the result of many different processes and changes that may have gone unnoticed can have unexpected results. There's no need for ASBs to be involved. The truth is we just don't know enough about how the climate works to say what leads to the climate naturally shifting from either warm to cold or cold to warm. If we did long range weather forecasts would involve a lot less guesswork.
 
Last edited:
Here's a potential P.O.D. The various air quality laws passed since the 1940s don't happen due to a general feeling that soot, smog and foul smelling air is kust the price you pay for an industrial society. This means that all around the northern hemisphere coal is still used both as fuel for industry and for domestic heating. The soot ect pumped into the air reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the ground leading to a cooling trend.
 
Top