"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote :

BBC Countrytracks forecast stated that Dec/Jan was the coldest in
Scotland "on record"! Remains to be seen.

It's not the case for the whole of Scotland, though perhaps it has been
with most?
December/January 1981/82 was slightly colder in this area (0.4ºC cooler).
And it looks to have been fractionally cooler for Glasgow and Edinburgh
too as far as I can tell. So I'm not sure if that's just a bit of headline
grabbing from the BBC / met office.
December/January 1939/40 is another candidate for being cooler.
Calling Mr Eden.
Alex.

Well, whoever said that was talking through their fundament and
probably deserves a good spanking thereupon. Here are the stats
for Dec/Jan combined:

Station 09/10 96/97 95/96 81/82 78/79
Lerwick 3.3 3.9 3.7 1.9 2.2
Kirkwall 3.8 4.1 4.4 2.4 2.8
Stornoway 4.2 4.7 5.1 3.4 3.7
Tiree 4.5 5.2 5.5 4.2 4.3
Glasgow 1.3 3.1* 2.9* 0.3* 1.5*
Eskdalemuir 0.1 1.4 1.8 -0.8 -0.1
Edinburgh 1.5 3.3* 3.2* 0.2* 1.7*
Leuchars 1.8 3.0 3.5 0.9 1.9
Dyce 2.1 3.3 3.1 0.7 1.7
Braemar -1.7 0.0* -0.1* -2.4 -0.9
Aviemore -0.7 1.2* 1.3* -1.7* -0.8*
Wick 3.2 3.3 4.0 1.9 2.9
* Change of site

So every station was colder in 81-82, some by more than
a degree (quite a large margin when you're looking at
two-month averages), and 8 of the 12 were colder in
78-79 as well.

And of course we should also emphasise that there are
lots and lots and lots of Jan/Feb combinations colder than
the coldest Dec/Jan combination.

Philip