Young Winter Girl On Snow

Exceptionally cold winters
• 1684, when the Thames was frozen solid, hosting one of many River Thames frost fairs, and the sea froze up to two miles out around the coast.
• Year Without a Summer was the name for the northern summer of 1816, because the weather was so cold that it reminded people of winter all year.
• In Europe, the winters of early 1947, 1962–63, 1981–82, and 2009–10 were considered abnormally cold.