UK weather records

[wellinghall]

Temperature
Highest 38.5°C 101.3°F Brogdale near Faversham, Kent 10 Aug 2003
Lowest -27.2°C -17.0°F Braemar, Aberdeenshire 11 Feb 1895 and 10 Jan 1982 Altnaharra, Sutherland 30 Dec 1995
Lowest for England -26.1°C Newport, Shropshire 10 Jan 1982
Lowest daily max temperature -15.9°C Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire 29 Dec 1995
Highest 38.5°C 101.3°F Brogdale near Faversham, Kent 10 Aug 2003
Highest daily min temperature 23.9°C Brighton, East Sussex 3 Aug 1990


Rainfall
Highest 5-min total 32 mm Preston, Lancashire 10 Aug 1893
Highest 30-min total 80 mm Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire 26 Jun 1953
Highest 60-min total 92 mm Maidenhead, Berkshire 12 Jul 1901
Highest 90-min total 117 mm Dunsop Valley, Lancashire 8 Aug 1967
Highest 120-min total 193 mm Walshaw Dean Lodge, Yorkshire 19 May 1989
Highest 155-min total 169 mm Hampstead, London 14 Aug 1975
Highest 180-min total 178 mm Horncastle, Lincolnshire 7 Oct 1960
Highest 24-hour total 314.4 mm Seathwaite Farm, Cumbria 19 Nov 2009

Sunshine
Highest monthly total 384 hours Eastbourne and Hastings, Sussex Jul 1911
Lowest monthly total 0 hours Westminster, London Dec 1890

Wind speed
Low level 142mph Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire 13 Feb 1989
High level 173mph Cairn Gorm 20 Mar 1986

Other
1665: In November, a deep depression was recorded, possibly the lowest recorded in London, of 931 millibars!
1683-84: Mid December saw the 'great frost' start in the UK and Central Europe. The Thames was frozen all the way up to London Bridge by early January 1684. The frost was claimed to be the longest on record, and probably was. It lasted kept the Thames frozen for 2 months, it froze as deep as 11 inches. Near Manchester, the ground had frozen to 27 inches, and in Somerset, to an astonishing 4 feet!
The biggest single fall of snow recorded in the UK is shared by two places, neither of which are in Scotland. Upper Teesdale in the North Pennines and the Denbigh Moors both claim 60 inches (5 feet) of level snow fall in 1963.

Comments

[segh.livejournal.com]

On 10th August 2003 I was sitting in a car queuing to get through the Dartford Tunnel - not all that far from where the maximum temperature was recorded. It's not a thing one readily forgets.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"It were always raining in Denley Moor, except on days when it were fine; and there weren't many of those - not if you include drizzle as rain. And even if it weren't drizzling, it were overcast and there were a lot of moisture in the air. You'd come home as though it had been raining, even though there had been no evidence of precipitation in the rain gauge outside the town hall."

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Dash it, I had 'move to Shropshire' as my cunning plan if we are both redundant.

I think Hampstead was cheating with their record. If they had stuck to 150 minutes, the 31mm which fell in the first five minutes, or the 31mm which fell in the last would not have counted, and at a measly 138mm it wouldn't have beaten the 120mins record.

And, er it didn't anyway! Nor did the 180min record beat the 120 min total. In fact, Walshaw Dean Lodge, Yorkshire holds 120min, 150min and 180 min records.

It may beat longer records, too.

*googles Walshaw Dean Lodge* - oh, it is very close to 'Wuthering Heights'.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Were you bored or insomniac again this morning?!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The latter :-(