Have been looking at some MetO Daily Weather Reports from the 1960s and its amazing how many times Aberdeen was swept by blizzards in a strong northerly, on one day in February 1969 Aberdeen had a midday temperature of -6c combined with Force 6 wind and heavy drifting snow.
That's a Northerly!
Andy
In February 1969, the local paper had a headline 'Almost Zero at Dyce this morning' and it was obviously zero degrees Fahrenheit whereas in the embarassment of a cold spell last week, which was beyond dire, some mornings you couldn't even say that was the case in degrees Celsius 🙄
The 60s were an unusually cold and snowy decade but arctic northerlies were a common feature of winter right up to 2010. All we have seen for much of the past decade is nonsense cold westerlies which tend to only affect the West Highlands, although Edinburgh seems to manage to do well out of them on occasions, but a complete disaster for NE Scotland. Never remember anything like it pre-2011 when the NE missed out on a snowfall but happens all the time now 🤢
This is what we got a lot of during the 2000s decade (from December 2003):
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This is what we got last week:
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An ugly, unpleasant, icy mess 👎
It's just beyond a joke what a coma-inducing insult January has turned into. I saw more snow here on 16th October 1993 and on the evening of 26th April 2015 than I have done in almost every single January since 2005.
This January has been one of the absolute worst. Up there with my most despised months of all time. Wouldn't have even thought it was possible for this month to be such a disastrous write-off that the heat island of Heathrow recorded a lower temperature than Aboyne. Can't imagine there has ever been a month in which this sort of nonsense has ever happened before 🤮
Wish I could have hibernated through the past 6 weeks. Wouldn't have missed a thing. The worst core winter period since 2013/14. Relentless unsettled conditions, relentless Force 4 wind. Wouldn't have known there was an anticyclonic conditions this week. Just more of the same crud there has been continuously since 19th December. Windy and not seen more than two successive dry days since before Christmas.
It's become almost impossible to even get a frost. Supposed to be sunny today but more breathtakingly awful ugly cloudy skies with zero sunshine. Nothing approaching a frost overnight when it was up to 5 degrees. Now it's colder and the wind is picking up to reach it's usual force 4. Just unrelenting dross.
An utterly diabolical winter yet again 🤬
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