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kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
Here in Virginia, it got down to 15F (-10 C) on the third week of
January. We got 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow, equally divided
between Monday the 15th and Friday the 19th. I shoveled the sidewalk
and paths to the door and to the garage. Twice.
Here in the south of England, no snow apart from a few flakes a couple of
weeks ago. It's a long time since I recall seeing settled snow on the
ground, and then only a centimetre of so.
I grew up in the north of England and we'd regularly get 20cm every year.
In November 1965, we couldn't get through to my school for a week, and I remember the big freeze of 1963. London has always been milder, and more
so the last few years.
The following Friday, two days ago, the temperature got up to 80F (27
C). I love global warming.
In Scotland, according to today's Independent:
"The Met Office said they had recorded a 19.6C temperature yesterday in Kinlochewe, a village in the northwest Highlands about an hour’s drive
from Inverness."
If verified, that would be the highest January temperature in the UK on
record.
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