A two-part post. Firstly, a simple question: what is the lowest
recorded temperature at a (non-mountain-top) British site in August?

Secondly, a Canadian friend pointed me at the following earlier today
in order to illustrate a point they were making (that, slightly to
their surprise, no August snow has been recorded in Saskatoon). This:

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec....3328&autofwd=1

Is there anything easily and freely available online that approaches
that for British locations? The nearest I can think of is the
Weatheronline.co.uk History section, but that's still nothing like
as good as the Canadian site.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On 13 Aug, 19:08, David Buttery wrote:
A two-part post. Firstly, a simple question: what is the lowest
recorded temperature at a (non-mountain-top) British site in August?

Our lowest August minimum was 0.8C in 1934, Dave.

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

In article . com,
Steve J writes:
On 13 Aug, 19:08, David Buttery wrote:
A two-part post. Firstly, a simple question: what is the lowest
recorded temperature at a (non-mountain-top) British site in August?

Our lowest August minimum was 0.8C in 1934, Dave.

By "our", do you mean Britain as a whole (which doesn't seem right) or
specifically Coventry?

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta..._in_august.htm

quotes -4.5C for 21st August, 1973 at Lagganlia, Grampian, but I imagine
that may well be a rather elevated site and hence not what the OP was
after.
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:42:44 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

...Lagganlia, Grampian, but I imagine
that may well be a rather elevated site ...

About 260 metres.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

John Hall wrote in news:
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snip
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta..._in_august.htm

quotes -4.5C for 21st August, 1973 at Lagganlia, Grampian, but I imagine
that may well be a rather elevated site and hence not what the OP was
after.

I don't know anything about Lagganlia, so I don't know whether that fits.
If it's an inhabited place, even a tiny one (see Altnaharra) then I'll take
it. Alan White below you says it's 260m, which doesn't seem excessive. In
any case, the same site gives -4.4°C for Grantown-on-Spey, so the
difference is tiny even if Lagganlia doesn't count.

I should, of course, have looked at that site of Trevor Harley's before
asking my question. It's been said before, but is worth saying again, what
an excellent site that is.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On Aug 13, 10:45 pm, Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:42:44 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

...Lagganlia, Grampian, but I imagine
that may well be a rather elevated site ...

About 260 metres.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:-http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

It's a valley bottom site just off Strathspey and something
of a frost hollow.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:25:03 -0700, Tudor Hughes
wrote:

It's a valley bottom site just off Strathspey and something
of a frost hollow.

I did wonder but the 1:50,000 contours didn't seem to support it, the
valley bottom being about 230 metres.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:25:03 -0700, Tudor Hughes
wrote:

It's a valley bottom site just off Strathspey and something
of a frost hollow.

Thinking about it more clearly, with the Cairngorm massif to the east
and the Monadhliath to the west, the whole of that stretch of Strathspey
must be a frost hollow. I have a memory of driving down the A9 from
Inverness to Glasgow one early morning in late '88 under a blazing blue
sky, and that stretch was considerably colder than the areas either
side. In fact it was bitterly cold and very beautiful.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

In article ,
David Buttery writes:
I don't know anything about Lagganlia, so I don't know whether that fits.
If it's an inhabited place, even a tiny one (see Altnaharra) then I'll take
it.

It's inhabited. See http://www.lagganlia.com/

Alan White below you says it's 260m, which doesn't seem excessive. In
any case, the same site gives -4.4°C for Grantown-on-Spey, so the
difference is tiny even if Lagganlia doesn't count.

I should, of course, have looked at that site of Trevor Harley's before
asking my question. It's been said before, but is worth saying again, what
an excellent site that is.

Indeed.

ISTR that somewhere there's a site that gives the highest and lowest
temperatures recorded in the UK for each day of the year, but I couldn't
find it again.
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren

On 13 Aug, 20:42, John Hall wrote:

By "our", do you mean Britain as a whole (which doesn't seem right) or
specifically Coventry?

This just refered to Coventry, John.

Steve