In message , Norman
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Malcolm wrote:


In article , Scott W
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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.


I believe that February 1947 was similar, being almost snowless (and
almost rainless) in western Scotland. The persistent easterlies meant
that the "rain shadow" effect was on the western side of Scotland rather
than the more usual east.
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