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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/december-was-coldest-in-120-years.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The past month was the UK's coldest December in 120 years" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-december-was-coldest-in-120-years.jpg" alt="The past month was the UK's coldest December in 120 years"/></a></p>
<p>The past month was Britain&#8217;s coldest December for 120 years, meteorologists have said.</p>
<p>It was also the chilliest individual calendar month since February 1986, according to weather historian Philip Eden, with temperatures dropping as low as -21.1C in the Scottish Highlands.</p>
<p>A series of heavy snowfalls across the UK caused massive disruption to road, rail and air travel as the nation shivered in freezing conditions.</p>
<p>The benchmark Central England Temperature plunged to an average of -0.6C over the month, the lowest figure for December since 1890, according to MeteoGroup UK.</p>
<p>There were 10 nights in December 2010 when the temperature fell below -18C somewhere in the UK.</p>
<p>Altnaharra in Sutherland, Scotland, experienced the coldest conditions, with the mercury plummeting to -21.1C early on December 1. By contrast, St Mary&#8217;s in the Isles of Scilly basked in the relative warmth of a high of 11.5C on December 28.</p>
<p>Over the month, the lowest average maximum temperature of -0.4C was recorded in Dalwhinnie and Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands, and the highest of 7.6C in St Mary&#8217;s. The average minimum temperature ranged from -8.4C in Tyndrum in Stirlingshire, Scotland, to 4.9C in St Mary&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Much of Britain may have been freezing and snowbound in December, but it was drier and sunnier than usual.</p>
<p>Rainfall averaged 39.5mm over England and Wales (39% of the mean for 1971-2000), the lowest total for December since 1971, 48mm over Scotland (47%) and 59mm over Northern Ireland (60%).</p>
<p>Northern Ireland enjoyed 80 hours of sunshine over the month (227% of the mean for 1971-2000), Scotland 59 hours (178%) and England and Wales averaged 56 hours (117%).</p>
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