![]() ![]() ![]() No-one expected this winter to be severe, as January started with very mild temperatures at up to 14 ☌ recorded. ![]() Much of this settled because temperatures stayed very low, just above freezing most days. Supplies had to be flown in by helicopter to many villages, and the armed forces were called in to help clear roads and railways.īetween January and March that year, snow fell every day somewhere in the country for 55 days straight. Thousands of people were cut off for days by snowdrifts up to seven metres deep during the winter of 1947, which saw exceptional snowfall. Snow covering most of the land every day for more than two months.Frozen rivers, lakes and even blocks of ice at sea.Thousands of people cut off in their villages by snowdrifts up to seven metres deep. ![]()
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