Remember the freeze of '82?
It is exactly 25 years to the day that a Shropshire weatherman clocked the lowest temperature ever recorded in England.
The big freeze of 1982 saw snowdrifts up to 10ft deep, troops on standby to clear the roads and a farmer collapse and die from the conditions near Ludlow.
On January 10, Bill Burrell recorded a national all-time low temperature of minus 26.1C (minus 15F) at Harper Adams Agricultural College, in Newport.
Today's weather stands as a stark contrast - the county is basking in the spring-like temperatures of one of the warmest winters on record.
On Monday 15C (59F) was logged - more than 40C higher than the all-time low.
Mr Burrell, then a researcher at the college, is now aged 88 and still living in Edgmond.
He recalled: "It had snowed the night before but had cleared up and it was a lovely day - just bitterly, bitterly cold."
The heavy snow that Shropshire had been experiencing for weeks had just got even worse - villages were cut off by drifts and schools were closed for days.
The body of John Harris, a 73-year-old who had a heart attack after setting out from his Clee Hill farm in two pairs of trousers and two coats, had to be dug out of the snow by a rescue team.
"It was painful to breathe," recalled Mr Burrell.
The former researcher, who retired in 1984 after 33 years service at the college studying plants as well as weather, believes global warming is pushing temperatures ever higher.
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