Our cooling sun could deliver another ‘Little Ice Age’ like the time in the 17th Century when the Thames froze over

The UK’s Met Office has released a study which shows the Sun is facing a “Little Ice Age” of cooling.

 

That was the title given to two periods between the late 17th Century and early 19th Century, also known as the “Maunder Minimum” and the “Dalton Minimum“.

 

Temperatures in the UK then plummeted to a point where 24 winters were recorded in which the river Thames froze over and became the site of annual “frost fairs”.

 

During the nastiest – the Great Frost of 1683-84, ice formed to 28cm thick on the river, which froze over for two months. There are accounts of stagecoaches being able to cross at the time.

 

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