The Great Freeze

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259

COYPU AT MINSMERE COMPARISON

IN

WEIGHTS

OF

COYPUS

TRAPPED

AT

MLNSMERE

IN MILD WEATHER AND IN PROLONGED, SEVERE FROST.

October,

Body length (inches)

14 15 15| 16 17 20 20i 21 24

1962

Weight (Ibs.) av.

max.

min.

21 2i

2i

21

4

3

H 4i 5 14 11* 11 121

January,

No. in sample

2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Weight (Ibs.) av.

max.

min.

4* H 4+ 6 5* 12 m 13 17

5

4 2f 3 44 4 10 10 11

6 n 8 14 13 15

1 63 No. in sample

3 4 5 12 9 12 7 15 1

Only a small sample of comparable body-lengths was available from those trapped in October. $ $ in advanced pregnancy have been omitted.

THE GREAT FREEZE by

G.

E.

CURTIS

THE winter of 1962-63 was one of the most severe in living memory and therefore might be considered to be worthy of record in our Transactions. The figures from which the following temperature graphs were made were kindly supplied by Lord Stradbroke and were recorded at the Henham Estate, Wangford, Beccles. Maximum temperature was taken at 6.0 p.m. and minimum at 7.00 a.m. each day and represents the highest and lowest temperature reached for the previous twenty-four hours. The thermometer was not screened and was suspended about four foot from the ground on a north-facing wall. The recording Station stands about fifty foot above sea level.


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THE GREAT FREEZE

TEMPERATURES—HENHAM,

SUFFOLK

Minimum

• Maximum

F

J'o

4-0

r''

1

JO

23

2<f

2&

2?

DECEMBER,

2S

Ja

Jl

/

2

1962

J

J

JANUARY,

JANUARY,

1963

1963

7

9


THE GREAT FREEZE

261

TEMPERATURES—HENHAM, •

SUFFOLK

Minimum

Maximum

C °

JANUARY, 1963

FEBRUARY, 1963

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\

/

*/«

•—

\

/ - I i i -

FEBRUARY, 1963

MARCH, 1963


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