Malcolm wrote:


In article , Scott W
writes
On Monday, 5 January 2015 23:14:39 UTC, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Looking at the historic charts earlier I noticed that there were
several, especially early on, that didn't look that cold. I know there
were several threatened thaws (probably based on expected evolution of
those charts)that didn't happen. After a very snowy start I seem to
remember much of the UK and Europe remained snow covered. How much would
that have depressed the temperature had there not been such widespread
cover? I wonder if the same charts showed up now whether the same
expectation of cold would materialise. I doubt it, with Europe being
relatively mild still, sea temperatures warmer and I suppose +1C for GW.
Dave

An interesting theory, Dave, but wasn't much of the North West very sunny
with little snow during the period.

I was on the north side of the Solway Firth in early February and there had
been no snow by then, just very hard frosts.

I was working at Prestwick Airport that winter, commuting 30 miles by motorbike
from Largs. It was an almost snow-free winter in that part of the country
though very frosty at times.

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