"Mike Tullett" wrote ...

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Thanks so much for that. I hade a look through the data from my
station,
1968 to 2002, and spotted something I always seem to forget. The
same
period in 1976/77 had a mean here of only 2.7C. I then contacted
Mark
Bailey at Armagh Observatory (obs started around 210 years ago) and
he
kindly gave me the figures for there.

1962 Dec 4.5
1963 Jan 0.0

1976 Dec 1.8
1977 Jan 2.3

1978 Dec 4.3
1979 Jan 0.8

2009 Dec 3.0
2010 Jan 2.0

So not only was 76/77 a good deal colder than recently, it was in
fact
colder than in the same two months in 62/63! That was a real
surprise. I
wonder what Aldergrove was in 76/77?

.... From the Met. Office DWR/Monthly Summary:-

Aldergrove
1976 Dec Mean maximum 4.1, Mean minimum 0.3
1977 Jan Mean maximum 5.0, Mean minimum 0.0

I make that

1976 Dec 2.2
1977 Jan 2.5

BTW, you can get Armagh observations (monthly summary) he-
http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...armaghdata.txt

and also Ballypatrick Forest
http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...atrickdata.txt

Martin.


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