As a lover of old county cricket, I have long been aware of the amazing contrast between these two summers! Especially the amazingly few dry days in 1912, which apparently had twelve fewer dry days averaged over England than any other summer since 1889! With uncovered pitches - a lesson for those who lament the demise of first-class cricket - the two summers made cricket quite literally two different ball games! The fast bowling needed on the very fast and true pitches of 1911 was valueless in 1912 as fast bowlers could never get a foothold (a good thing given that controlling the value of fast bowling is how first-class cricket becomes self-supporting). Warwickshire's flukish Championship win powered by Foster and Field was another highlight, though after a thunderstorm in hot weather Yorkshire had to bat on probably the most vicious "sticky" seen in County Championship history at Aylestone Road and Jack King took seven for none. On another topic, I wonder if you have any synoptic data for the summers of 1887 and 1888, which present a very similar contrast to 1911 and 1912 - the first extremely warm and dry, the second very cool and wet.
GavsWeatherVids So, when you have time, I would like and hope to see 1887 and 1888 compared day-to-day in a set of historic videos! I like looking at old weather charts and it can expand one's understanding no end! Also, about September 1912, the decline in rainfall over England from August to September 1912 is the greatest for any two consecutive months in the EWP series since 1766. If we judge by rank, 1912 also sets the record, moving from eighth-wettest March to third-driest April (the driest month between 1892 and 1924).
guodade I'll see what I can do. Sometime I'm hoping to the whole 1878/1879 over two or three videos - Trouble is these historic videos take so much time to do so I only do a handful a year now.
GavsWeatherVids Do you mean the whole years or just the very cold winter? The summer of 1879 was, for the three months, the coolest and wettest on record in England, and in Wisdens as late as 1930, was a kind of standard for horribly cool and wet summers.
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1921 and 1922 along with 1947, 1948 and 1949 so similar extremes
As a lover of old county cricket, I have long been aware of the amazing contrast between these two summers! Especially the amazingly few dry days in 1912, which apparently had twelve fewer dry days averaged over England than any other summer since 1889!
With uncovered pitches - a lesson for those who lament the demise of first-class cricket - the two summers made cricket quite literally two different ball games! The fast bowling needed on the very fast and true pitches of 1911 was valueless in 1912 as fast bowlers could never get a foothold (a good thing given that controlling the value of fast bowling is how first-class cricket becomes self-supporting). Warwickshire's flukish Championship win powered by Foster and Field was another highlight, though after a thunderstorm in hot weather Yorkshire had to bat on probably the most vicious "sticky" seen in County Championship history at Aylestone Road and Jack King took seven for none.
On another topic, I wonder if you have any synoptic data for the summers of 1887 and 1888, which present a very similar contrast to 1911 and 1912 - the first extremely warm and dry, the second very cool and wet.
guodade Nice post. :)
To answer your question, yes I can go back as far as 1871 with these charts.
GavsWeatherVids So, when you have time, I would like and hope to see 1887 and 1888 compared day-to-day in a set of historic videos! I like looking at old weather charts and it can expand one's understanding no end!
Also, about September 1912, the decline in rainfall over England from August to September 1912 is the greatest for any two consecutive months in the EWP series since 1766. If we judge by rank, 1912 also sets the record, moving from eighth-wettest March to third-driest April (the driest month between 1892 and 1924).
guodade I'll see what I can do. Sometime I'm hoping to the whole 1878/1879 over two or three videos - Trouble is these historic videos take so much time to do so I only do a handful a year now.
GavsWeatherVids Do you mean the whole years or just the very cold winter? The summer of 1879 was, for the three months, the coolest and wettest on record in England, and in Wisdens as late as 1930, was a kind of standard for horribly cool and wet summers.
guodade The whole year. Starting Autumn 1878 and going through to the end of 1879. Would be my magnus opus if I could get it done