GRGR (6): Ick Regis

[John Burgess]

A question:  "39 degrees of frost."  (Bantam, p.100):  That's seven
below zero.  That's unreasonably cold for Minnesota in November or
December (by mid-December the Scheldt was clear and there was fighting
only in Holland proper, way to the north of Flanders), and
lunatic-crazy cold for Kent in any month.  Why that number?

It's my understanding that the winter of 1944 was exceptionally cold, even in 
balmy Kent.