On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 9:56:25 AM UTC, wrote:
The national maximum temperature yesterday (the 25th)was 15.1C at Aboyne. However, 15 miles from Aboyne, we measured 15.5C. We have a good open observing site, a Stevenson Screen and the same thermometers the MO use, though these are about 40 years old. But the MO won't want to know, of course.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.
80m asl.

I did contact the MO but got an oblique reply; not quite sure what they were saying. I was sorry to hear that thermometer bulbs contract with time; I was hoping that they stretched. Of course, if they contract that would cause my thermometers to overread. Pity.

It was, of course, Dyce that had the record reading, not Aboyne as I said before. However we're 15 miles from them as well!

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Abeerdeenshire.
80m asl.