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It's a little weird how this came right on the heels of the long slog of the Napoleonic wars. Similarly, that 1919 was the year of the Spanish Flu, and 1946-47
by thrower123 7y ago
It's a little weird how this came right on the heels of the long slog of the Napoleonic wars.
Similarly, that 1919 was the year of the Spanish Flu, and 1946-47 was an exceptionally harsh winter.
- lgeorget 7y agoAnd years 1942-1945 were exceptionally hot, but with a lot of contrast. In France, minimal maximal temperature of February 1945 was 10°C but it froze mid-May.
- NikkiA 7y ago1955 and 1963 were also exceptionally harsh winters, but not being close to a major event they continue to remain unimportant. ie, the 1946/47 winter is just observership bias, spanish flu's closeness to WW1, is on the other hand, part of the factor in how it spread (likely from the US to the trenches, then to everywhere else as convalescing wounded returned home from hospitals filled with the infected)