"Len Wood" wrote in message
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Having beaten the all time daily rainfall record in Cumbria this year,
is the cold snap going to bring any record low temperatures for the
UK? Surely global warming and El Nino won't allow it? And then there
is a lot of hot air in Copenhagen.
Here are the records that need to be broken:
UK
-27.2C Braemar 10 Jan 1992 and 11 Feb 1895
-27.2C Altnaharra 30 Dec 1995.

England
-25.2C Shawbury, Shrops, 13 Dec 1981
-26.1C Newport, Shrops, 10 Jan 1982

Wembury, SW Devon, -10.1C 13 Jan 1987

Better check your lagging.

Len Wood



Very, very unofficial, Jan 1977, 6 miles north of Lanark on top of a
mountain (c1000ft ASL near the village of Forth) at an open cast coal site
on their site max/min thermometer.

-28C minimum overnight, -16C maximum the following afternoon.

I know, because I read the thermometer each day, and I was working out in it
all day. Surprised the hell out of me when I saw it, because they had been
about -15C and -5C respectively for several days prior. Snowed like the
clappers a couple of days later, and the only way to get to the site was to
use the bulldozers and excavators to dig our way in. Oh what fun. :-)

jim, Northampton