Tuesday, March 19, 2013

What a difference a year makes: Chilling satellite maps show how it was an incredible 31C hotter this time last year - and it'll stay cold for the next fortnight


Take a trip back to March last year, when the weather was fine and we were bathing in the sunshine.

Now these satellite maps show just how far we’ve fallen from the March 2012 high of 23.6C recorded in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, to a daytime low of -7.8C in the same village on Monday of last week.

That astonishing difference - which is 36.5C when considering Aboyne's even colder overnight low last week of -12.9C - in just one year comes as another snowfall covered northern Britain overnight .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk