Weather records (UK)

[wellinghall]

(because I'm sad like that)

Lowest screen temperature: -17F, -27.2C, at Braemar, Grampian, Scotland, 11/2/1895 and 10/1/1982
(England: -26.1C, Newport, Shropshire, 10/1/1982; lowest maximum daytime temperature: -19.1C, Braemar, 10/1/1982)

Greatest snowfall in 12 months: 60in, 1,524mm, Upper Teesdale and Denbighshire Hills, Clwyd, Wales, 1947
(London's earliest recorded snow was 25/9/1885, and the latest was 27/5/1821)

Minimum sunshine: Nil in a month at Westminster, London, December 1890

Lowest barometric pressure: 925.5mb, 27.33in, Ochtertye, near Crieff, Tayside, 26/1/1884

Highes surface wind speed: 144mph, 231 km/h, 125 knots, Coire Cas ski lift (3,525 ft, 1,074m), Cairn Gorm, Highland, 6/3/1967

Coldest place (measured mean): 6.35C, 43.43F, Braemar, Aberdeenshire, 1959 - 1981

Heaviest hailstones: 5oz, 141g, Horsham, West Sussex, 5/9/1958

Windiest place: Fair Isle, 1974 - 1978, average 20.6mph

Comments

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Indeed - and even if they as individuals can remember, they are almost forced into institutional inanities by the media organisations that want an excuse to say "This is the worst ever!!!!"

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite!