In article . com,
Steve J writes:
On 13 Aug, 19:08, David Buttery wrote:
A two-part post. Firstly, a simple question: what is the lowest
recorded temperature at a (non-mountain-top) British site in August?

Our lowest August minimum was 0.8C in 1934, Dave.

By "our", do you mean Britain as a whole (which doesn't seem right) or
specifically Coventry?

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta..._in_august.htm

quotes -4.5C for 21st August, 1973 at Lagganlia, Grampian, but I imagine
that may well be a rather elevated site and hence not what the OP was
after.
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