FIFTY YEARS AGO Thursday January 20, 1972
Water, water everywhere!
Several Campbeltown streets were flooded on Tuesday when torrential rain, which later turned to sleet, fell incessantly.
Worst hit in the burgh was, as usual, Lochend, where streets were under several feet of water and some low-doored premises were in danger of being washed out.
Glebe Street, Ralston Road and parts of Meadows Road were also badly affected.
The Campbeltown to Carradale road was treacherous in places with numerous deep areas of flooding.
Drain covers were forced up in different parts of the town.
The local fishing fleet and other vessels were forced to run for the safety of Campbeltown Harbour when a gale force south easterly wind rose at sea; 8mm of rain fell during three hours on Tuesday.
And the rainfall figure for the first 17 days of
January was almost 4 inches.
More sun in the Wee Toon
Campbeltown had 15 hours more sunshine in 1971 than in 1970.
Top of the sun charts was May, with 220 hours. The lowest figure was December, with a little more than 30 hours.
In all, we basked under 1,484 hours of warmth compared to 1,469 hours in 1970.
A monthly breakdown of the sun hours is given below:
January 52.8; February 63.4; March 123; April 169; May 120.6; June 184.7; July 1 193.7; August 136.8; September 135; October 111.6; November 63.6; December 30.3.
Probably the most disappointing month was August, when 136 hours were recorded.
An interesting point has come out of the sun totals. Compared with that of the evergreen holiday resort Rothesay, Campbeltown had 135 more hours of sun.
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