In article , Col
writes
No, not today but in 1910

From: http://www.torro.org.uk/severeweathe...s/maxtemps.htm

I noticed this extraordinary claim:

"Absolute `highs' for each British County were published in Weather, 48,
282-291. A remarkable British `heat-wave' occurred on 6th August 1910 when 28 C
was registered in the Shetland Isles, while nowhere elsewhere in Britain
exceeded 20 C. The extraordinary weather situation responsible is described in
Journal of Meteorology, 9(91), 211-213."

Now to me this seems ridiculous and indeed quite impossible.
I would not have thought 28C possible on Shetland under *any*
circumstances, let alone when 20C wasn't recorded anywhere
else in the UK.

Would anybody hazzard a guess at the truely bizzare weather
set-up that would produce such conditions?

I'm intrigued by this

Col
Col,

A total guess but it is possible to visualise a synoptic situation in
which very warm air was advected NW'wards from far SE Europe to southern
Scandinavia then westwards to the Shetland Islands without affecting
other parts of the British Isles.

Before posting the above I have just remembered that the reanalysis
charts available on the Topkarten site go back that far. These show that
there may have been advection of low-level air from the vicinity of the
Black Sea, much as I have described above.

Norman.
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