"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message
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"Joe Egginton" wrote in message

What is the minimum humidity for the UK?

Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

Not sure about that one Joe, but I have recorded 18% here twice.
1st time was 14/07/03 with 28.1ºC/1.6ºC airtemp/dewpoint.
2nd time was last year on May 30th, 23.3/-1.9

Alex
Wishaw, Central lowlands


.... Stephen Burt is the expert on all this record-keeping: he wrote an
article for 'Weather' in June 2001 which detailed some of the lowest
relative humidities in these islands; unfortunately, I don't have that
copy to hand, but from notes I made from his article, we have a range
of 8% to 12% for the 'notable' lowest, with 9.5% recorded at
Parkstone, Dorset (down this way/now a suburb of the Poole-Bournemouth
conurbation) set in 1901 on the 24th May and 8% at Abbotsinch (now
Glasgow Airport) on the 17th May 1980.

I've also got a record of 'nearly zero' from Penrith in Cumberland
(now Cumbria) on 7th May 1886, but whether that was from Stephen's
paper or somewhere else I'm not sure. There are quite a number in the
10-15% range.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023