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Late December 1979 cold snap


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  • Location: Ashbourne,County Meath,about 6 miles northwest of dublin airport. 74m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold weather - frost or snow
  • Location: Ashbourne,County Meath,about 6 miles northwest of dublin airport. 74m ASL

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Dont really remember this although I was only 6 at the time.

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  • Location: Ashbourne,County Meath,about 6 miles northwest of dublin airport. 74m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold weather - frost or snow
  • Location: Ashbourne,County Meath,about 6 miles northwest of dublin airport. 74m ASL

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  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire

It must have been a late December of considerable contrast as I recall attending a birthday celebration in Croydon on the 27th and the meal being abandoned part-way through after the restaurant roof started to leak badly in the heavy rain. In his book on Great British Weather Disasters, Philip Eden noted that 2000 sq km received 100mm or more of rain on the 26th and 27th, mainly in the south of England, and four people were tragically drowned in South Wales.   

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