"John Hall" wrote in message
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In message , Norman
writes
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.

Hardly any snow in Manchester in 1962/1963. But we did get days of light
drizzly snow which was being blown off the Pennines to the east. As a boy of
10 I could see the Pennines shining white and deep snow was only a few miles
away in the foothills but I couldn't get there :-( It was very icy though
IIRC.

Will
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