In article
,
Dawlish writes:
BBC Countrytracks forecast stated that Dec/Jan was the coldest in
Scotland "on record"! Remains to be seen.

By "on record" they may mean in the Met Office areal temperature series,
which I think for some reason only go back to 1914. Even so, it would be
a little surprising.
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John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)