Article Tags: Met Office, World Temperatures
SCOTLAND shivered this year in the second-coldest winter ever recorded.
Met Office statistics reveal that only the winter of 1963 was colder than the temperatures in Scotland between December 2009 and February 2010.
And for northern Scotland it was actually the coldest since records began in 1914. Over the winter in Scotland the temperature averaged just 0.27C which is 2.3C below the average temperature for the winter months in Scotland.
The winter of 1963, at an average of 0.16C was slightly colder. In contrast, the winter of 1989, the hottest recorded in Scotland, averaged 5.12C. A report by the Met Office also highlights the snowfall in Scotland was heavier than that experienced south of the Border.
“Significant snowfalls occurred widely at times from mid-December until the end of February,” the report said. “These included falls of over 20cm in southern England in early January and over 30cm in central and northern Scotland in late February.”
Scotland has struggled to cope with the prolonged big freeze over the past three months.
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Source: news.scotsman.com