It's been an exceptionally cold and snowy March here.

Statistics for the 1st to 20th March:

Mean max: 4.1C
Mean min: 0.1C
Overall mean: 2.1C

Snow/sleet falling days: 13, snow lying(50%) :11

1971-2000 averages for Dyce are 8.3C, 1.7C and 5.0C (for the whole
month) with 8 days snow falling and 2 lying.

Temperature has not reached 10C once - highest 9.2C on the 8th. Last
time March failed to reach 10C was in 1964. In fact only 4 Marches
since 1989 have not reached 15C (1994, 1996, 2001 and 2004).

If anything the mean will drop over the next few days so looks certain
to be the coldest March locally since 1969 possibly even 1962.

Also I would imagine that the accumulated snow depth I currently have -
162cm - is more than any other March, since the war, with the exception
of 1947 and possibly 1958. It's also likely to have been the highest of
any month since at least January 1984.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen (98m. a.s.l.)