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Martin Rowley writes:
"John Hall" wrote ...
Every day for the last couple of weeks or more the Daily Telegraph
has
shown the lowest minimum in the country as being "Cairngorms". I
assume
that someone must have put an AWS at the top of a mountain, but even
so
the values being quoted seem remarkably low. They always seem to be
below freezing, and on a couple of occasions have been as low
as -6°C.
The Telegraph gets its data from one of the big private forecasting
outfits. Presumably the Cairngorms data isn't recognised by the Met
Office.

... it's been there for many years (since 1977), and has been featured
in several television programmes (and articles in the meteorological
literature) ....

http://cairngormweather.eps.hw.ac.uk/details.htm

It is most certainly 'recognised' by the Met Office (SYNOP = 03065)
and can be monitored either via the site above, or from such as
'OgiMet' at ....

www.ogimet.com

It won't appear in the 'official' highs/lows of course because it's a
high-level station. I can't remember the cut-off height that is used
... ~ 350m?

There are a few others that aren't used ... e.g., Cairnwell, Great Dun
Fell.

Martin.



Thanks. Martin. I wonder why the outfit that supplies the weather data
to the Telegraph has now started using it when it didn't use to.

If the figures in the "minimum temperature" row in the page that you
link to are absolute minima, then the values that have been appearing in
the Telegraph are well below the figure given for July. (It's hard to
believe that the -11C for January could be the /average/ minimum.)
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)