The lowest temperatures since 1961 in the UK

*Someone at the Met OfficeUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy forgot the minus sign.

Here are some of the plotted charts from eleven of the lowest temperatures that have occurred in the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. since 1961. I’ll add to the charts when I get more time, but as I only have SYNOPSYNOP SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically mad hourly and consist of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not available) describing general weather information, such as the temperature, barometric pressure and visibility at a weather station. data back to 1973 I can’t include the ones from the early 1960’s. So to start the show, here are the joint coldest temperatures of -27.2°C from 1982 & 1995.

It’s a shame Braemar has never been a SYNOP station, but the -16°C and 18 cm of snow reported at Dyce, will give you an idea of the condition further up Deeside.
I’ve caught the 18-06 minimum temperature at Altnaharra of -27.0°C. The UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had started to include temperatures to one decimal place by then, so the minimum must have occurred between 06-09, or even later. Similar synoptic conditions to those in 1982, but a much tighter SE’ly gradient, who knows it could have been even colder if the wind hadn’t go up.🤔
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