| Winter 1947: 'General Inference' and Discussion* 
        at 0600 on 17th February 1947 | |||
| '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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| *Refers to 24 hours ending 0600 on the date | |||