Weather Disaster, The Big Freeze: Winter 63 and Heatwave: Summer of 76

Virgin Media Three

7:25 PM to 9:00 PM

Saturday 7 December

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A mixture of interviews, dramatic archive and shocking human interest stories bring extreme weather to life. The Big freeze began on Christmas Day 1962 and continued until early March. It was the coldest for more than 200 years outstripping even 'white 1947' for bitter temperatures. The 1975 and 76 drought was exceptionally dry, starting in May 1975 and ending in September 1976. The drought was accompanied by a period of unusually hot weather in July 1976