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Feb. 2, 1282. Severe Winter.—Stow records that “From Christmas to the Purification of our Lady [Feb. 2] there was such a frost and snow as no man living could remember the like: wherethrough five arches of London Bridge were borne downe and carried away by the streame; and the like hapned to many other bridges in England. And, not long after, men passed over the Thames between Westminster and Lambeth dryshod.” The frozen Thames was used as a highway, and the damage to the bridges was caused by the break up of the ice. The winter was also severe in Europe, and at the end of February such heavy snow fell in Austria that many houses could scarcely be seen. The melting of the snows caused great floods, and Paris was inundated by the Seine.
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Historic Natural Events. Nature 125, 185–186 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125185a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125185a0