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Gavin Staples writes:
Data from March 1947
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ABERDEEN

Mean Max: 2.8 Mean Min: -3.0 Highest Max: 7.8 Lowest Min: -17.2
Rainfall: 198% Air frosts: 20 Days with lying snow: 26

It must be almost unique for a low-level station in the UK to return a
sub-zero mean temperature for March. And 26 days with lying snow is very
impressive. Obviously it wasn't until quite late in the month that this
region warmed up significantly (probably delayed by how cold the North
Sea was by this time).

Added later: I've just scrolled down as far as your comment at the end
of your post, and see that your thoughts are very much the same as mine.
--
John Hall

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