Well, the coldest March on record was in 1962, when the mean temperature staggered to just 1.9C.

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Temperatures in Delhi, however, rose to 2.4C, up from 1.9C on Monday.

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They are now having to re-lay the entire track again, and they need to wait for the ice to freeze down to -9C.

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Gravesend was also the location for the warmest October temperature ever, when 29.9C (85.8F) was recorded on 1 October, beating the previous record of 29.4C (84.9F) in the Cambridgeshire town of March on the same day in 1985.

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