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Extreme weather events that hit Bristol 400 years ago revealed in newly transcribed chronicle -- Secret History -- Sott.net

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News Pamphlet illustration depicting the Great Flood in the Bristol Channel Jan 1607Historians from the University of Bristol have discovered contemporary accounts of numerous weird weather events that happened in the Bristol area around the turn of the 17th century, including devastating floods, massive snowfalls and frosts that saw rivers frozen for months.
The detail comes from a chronicle that was acquired by Bristol Archives in 1932 but then declared as unfit for production due to its extremely fragile nature. Access to the manuscript was very limited making it difficult to investigate its contents.
Using digital photography, a team led by Dr. Evan Jones from the University of Bristol s Department of History, has now painstakingly transcribed the document which is named 09594/1. ....

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17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather

17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather
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Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking.
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The meteorological situation in Bristol occurred during a short timespan within the Little Ice Age called the Grindelwald Fluctuation, so named for the expansion of a Swiss glacier by the same name. A team of researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London recently inspected Tudor-era chronicles describing the weather phenomena, which included huge floods, snowstorms, frigid temperatures, and storms. Their findings are published in the Royal Meteorological Society journal Weather. ....

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