On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:26:18 -0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

"brian blair" wrote :
Ian Bingham wrote:

Min was -10.2C here last night but it pales into insignificance compared
with Aviemore's -17C.

"Heather with the Weather" BBC Scotland said it was Aviemore and
Aberdeen's coldest night in Feb for 23 years

Although it has been colder in other months, including, notably,
March 2001. I wonder how long till this becomes "Scotland's
coldest night for 23 years"?

Isn't "18 years" the span by which we measure everything these days?
It was amazing how London's heaviest snow for 18 years soon became
Britain's heaviest snow for 18 years.