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OVER the greater part of the British Islands last month was one of the coldest Februarys on record, the mean temperature at Greenwich being only 33°.8, or 6°.8 below the average of the month. Throughout Great Britain generally, from the Grampians to the Channel, temperature was from about 5°.0 to 7°.0 below the means of the stations. But in the northern and western divisions of these islands temperature was only from about 2°.O to 3°.5 below the monthly averages. This difference was mainly occasioned by the distribution of temperature during the second week of the month, owing to the higher temperature in the north and west accompanying the storms which prevailed in the far north during the time. Thus during the week ending February 13, the mean temperature of Parsonstown was 43°.5, whilst at Oxford it was so low as 33°.8, or nearly 10° lower.
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The Weather . Nature 33, 447–448 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033447b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033447b0