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) and Buxton (Derbyshire) both struggling to only 8.3 °C, with a few isolated afternoon showers for western counties. The 22nd was windy at times, with sunshine and scattered showers. The 23rd was mainly cloudy, but dry for most and breezy at times, with isolated pockets of rain mostly in the far north
had closures, with other passes over the Peaks also closed due to snow and difficult driving conditions reported around Buxton. Snow and ice in parts of Scotland on the 6th and 7th gave difficult driving conditions on the M8, M80, A82, and other main roads. Trains and buses were delayed in Glasgow
Okehampton (Devon) August 8.9 27 August 1919 Ampleforth (North Yorkshire) August 8.9 28 August 1919 Bradford (West Yorkshire) August 8.9 28 August 1919 Newton Rigg (Cumbria) September 6.2 27 September 1974 Malham Tarn (North Yorkshire) October 1.1 31 October 1934 Buxton (Derbyshire) October 1.1 31 October
of the country. • On 2 June 1975 snow showers forced the abandonment of several cricket matches across the country. Most noteworthy were the matches between Essex and Kent at Colchester and between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton. • The snowiest winter of the twentieth century in the United Kingdom
years), Durham (135 years), Bradford, West Yorkshire, Buxton, Derbyshire, Rothamsted, Hertfordshire, Balmoral, Aberdeenshire and Woburn, Bedfordshire (all 100+ years). Monthly mean monthly temperature anomalies across southern England were typically 5 °C above average, reaching 6 °C in a few locations
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