Keepers' logbooks shed light on climate change - Scotsman.com

Prof Dawson, author of the book So Foul and Fair a Day: a History of Scotland's Weather and Climate, gives the example that during the 19th century Scotland suffered regularly stormy weather.
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"The stormiest times appear to have been during the 1880s, and it is notable that this time coincided with a huge expansion of sea ice across the northern ocean," he adds.