Winter 1947: 'General Inference' and Discussion*
at 0600 on 17th February 1947
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'Pressure will remain high over Southern Scandinavia.
It will be mainly cloudy over the Southern half of England and Wales
with occasional light snow though some bright periods may occur tomorrow
in the East. In Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland weather
will be fair. It will continue very cold generally with frost day and
night in the South, locally severe during the night and morning. In
the North there will be severe night frost but day temperature may reach
or slightly exceed freezing point in sheltered places during the day.
Visibility will be moderate or good, but local smoke-haze will occur
near built-up areas and local fog in the morning in Scotland' At 0600hours-Easterly
airstream with winds to F5 over eastern England. Winds calm over central
Scotland and S to SW F2 over northern Scotland. Generally cloudy over
England, Wales and Ireland but area of clearer skies covers central
and eastern Scotland, N.Belgium,Netherlands, NW Germany and Denmark.
A dry picture with just a few places, Shetland, Kew and western Germany
(Kassel?) reporting snow.The coldest place is Renfrew with 17°F
(-8.3°C) under clear skies and the warmest are Valentia and Roches
Point on 34°F (1.1°C). On the map as a whole the coldest place
is Skagen, north Denmark on 10°F (-12.2°C). Overnight minima-lowest
15°F (-9.4°C) at Eskdalemuir and Dalwhinnie. Highest is 34°F
(1.1°c) at Lerwick Previous day's maxima-lowest 26°F (-3.3°C)
at Little Rissington and the highest 42°F (5.6°C) at Roches
Point Precipitation-generally dry but with 'trace' reported from stations
in SE England and East Midlands. Wettest is Manston with 2mm Snow cover/depth-indications
of a light overnight snowfall (to1") in the SE with extent of snow
cover generally much as in previous days. Greatest depth is 13"
at Waddington, 8" at West Raynham and Spurn Head, 7" at Finningley
and Acklington. Outlook-Very cold weather continuing for several days
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