UK weather extremes

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24 hours ending 2200 on 18 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 15.3°C Solent
Lowest max .. 8.7°C Loch Glascarnoch
Lowest min .. -0.9°C Charlwood
Highest rainfall .. 21.0 mm Cluanie Inn
Sunniest .. 4.0 hours Stornoway

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24 hours ending 2200 on 19 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 14.6°C Culdrose
Lowest max .. 4.4°C Braemar
Lowest min .. 0.1°C Topcliffe
Highest rainfall .. 17.0 mm Hawarden
Sunniest .. 7.9 hours Brize Norton

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24 hours ending 2200 on 20 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 11.9 °C Culdrose
Lowest max .. 3.9 °C Loch Glascarnoch
Lowest min .. -5.0 °C Tyndrum
Highest rainfall .. 15.8 mm Norwich Airport
Sunniest .. 9.9 hours Wittering

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24 hours ending 2200 on 21 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 13.8°C Killowen
Lowest max .. 5.0°C Loch Glascarnoch
Lowest min .. -4.9°C Hurn
Highest rainfall .. 27.8 mm Cluanie Inn
Sunniest .. 9.3 hours Manston

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24 hours ending 2200 on 22 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 15.1°C Wisley
Lowest max .. 4.0°C Aviemore
Lowest min .. -0.8°C Exeter Airport
Highest rainfall .. 48.0 mm Tyndrum
Sunniest .. 6.2 hours Herstmonceux

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24 hours ending 2200 on 23 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 14.3°C Langdon Bay
Lowest max .. 5.6°C Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. -5.2°C Altnaharra
Highest rainfall .. 32.2 mm Walney Island
Sunniest .. 6.4 hours Tiree

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24 hours ending 2200 on 24 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 12.5 °C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max .. 5.2 °C Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. -4.4 °C Katesbridge
Highest rainfall .. 19.2 mm Loftus
Sunniest .. 9.2 hours Aldergrove

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24 hours ending 2200 on 25 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 13.1°C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max .. 6.6°C Carterhouse
Lowest min .. -6.6°C Sennybridge
Highest rainfall .. 11.6 mm Lerwick
Sunniest .. 9.6 hours Odiham

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24 hours ending 2200 on 26 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 18.1°C Murlough
Lowest max .. 9.6°C Lerwick
Lowest min .. -2.9°C Santon Downham
Highest rainfall .. 45.6 mm Dundrennan
Sunniest .. 2.5 hours Kinloss

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24 hours ending 2200 on 27 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 17.8°C St James Park
Lowest max .. 9.4°C Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. 6.7°C Tyndrum
Highest rainfall .. 54.6 mm Cluanie Inn
Sunniest .. 7.3 hours Filton

[daviescr]

Said it before mate, thanks for keeping us up to date with these stats - I'm heading 'home' to Yorkshire at Christmas / New Year, so will be keeping a close eye on winter

Cheers
Chris

[Onetahuti]

Said it before mate, thanks for keeping us up to date with these stats - I'm heading 'home' to Yorkshire at Christmas / New Year, so will be keeping a close eye on winter

Cheers
Chris

Met Office data suggests mild winter but don't forget last year


Its “Barbecue Summer” was a washout while its “mild winter” was the coldest for 31 years, so you might be forgiven for taking the Met Office’s latest prediction with a pinch of salt.

But the official forecasters have said that this winter could be unusually mild and dry, with temperatures at least 2C more than last year’s big freeze in which snow and ice caused travel chaos across much of Britain.

Although the Met Office no longer issues long-term forecasts, their latest data suggest a high probability of a warmer winter for London, the East of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The South West, Wales and most of the North of England are less likely to enjoy such relatively pleasant temperatures but still have a 40 to 60 per cemt chance of being mild.

The statistics were generated by the Met Office’s new £33million supercomputer built by IBM.

Forecasters used it to analyse how likely temperatures and rainfall were to be above normal for winter but not how far above.

The average temperature for winter from 1971 to 2000 is 3.7C (39F). However, last year was 1.5C (35F), meaning anything above the 30-year normal this winter would be a marked improvement with far less chance of snow and ice.

As well as the milder winter, the computer concluded that almost all of Britain had a 40 to 60% of being drier than normal, with only the south coast more likely to see normal amounts of rain.

However, the Met Office warned that the figure were only part of the data used to build predictions for December, January and February’s weather but do not include such influential factors as the El Nino-La Nina high-low pressure system in the Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Oscillation, which partly governs the winds and storms which arrive in Britain from the west.

Last year, the Government’s forecasters were repeatedly criticised for predicting, first, a “barbecue summer” which led to a notably damp July and August, then a mild winter which turned out to be the coldest since the 1970s with temperatures down to -22.3C (-8.1F) in Altnaharra, Scotland.

The Met Office subsequently ditched its long-term forecasts but said it was unrelated to the bad publicity, saying the real reason was increased public demand for month by month predictions.

Yesterday, other forecasters suggested the Met Office might, yet again, not be entirely accurate.

Jonathan Powell, senior forecaster for the independent firm Positive Weather Solutions, said the lack of rainfall was in line with his predictions but not the temperatures and added that he expected snow to be a problem.

“It baffles me how the Met Office can predict a milder-than-average winter when all the indicators show this winter will have parallels to the last one,” he said.

“The Met Office is standing alone here, as ourselves and other independent forecasters are all predicting a colder-than-average winter.”

Technimatch, which produces analysis for its website The Weather Outlook, predicted a colder winter than average with heavy snow; while Netweather, which supplies forecasts to firms, said it expected a cold and very dry December.

A spokesman for the Met Office said: “This is not an official forecast, it’s data that would form part of a longer term prediction.

“If you look at the whole picture across north west Europe, there’s a higher chance of a cold winter than a warm one.”

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[Onetahuti]

24 hours ending 2200 on 28 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 16.6°C Filton
Lowest max .. 9.1°C Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. 2.7°C Katesbridge
Highest rainfall .. 33.2 mm Tyndrum
Sunniest .. 5.4 hours Lerwick

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24 hours ending 2200 on 29 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 16.7°C Chivenor
Lowest max .. 9.2°C Lough Fea
Lowest min .. 6.2°C Baltasound
Highest rainfall .. 43.8 mm Tyndrum
Sunniest .. 3.9 hours Aviemore

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24 hours ending 2200 on 30 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 15.4°C Santon Downham
Lowest max .. 7.7°C Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. 0.6°C Katesbridge
Highest rainfall .. 25.4 mm Cluanie Inn
Sunniest .. 8.1 hours Leuchars

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24 hours ending 2100 on 31 Oct 2010:

Highest max .. 15.1°C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max .. 8.0°C Loch Glascarnoch
Lowest min .. -1.3°C Aboyne
Highest rainfall .. 20.6 mm Okehampton
Sunniest .. 7.8 hours Leuchars

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24 hours ending 2100 on 1 Nov 2010:

Highest max .. 15.3°C Mumbles Head
Lowest max .. 8.6°C Lerwick
Lowest min .. -5.3°C Altnaharra
Highest rainfall .. 20.0 mm Tyndrum
Sunniest .. 6.5 hours Herstmonceux

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24 hours ending 2100 on 2 Nov 2010:

Highest max .. 15.6°C Bridlington
Lowest max .. 8.7°C Aviemore
Lowest min .. 2.6°C Aboyne
Highest rainfall .. 55.6 mm Lake Vyrnwy
Sunniest .. 6.6 hours Leuchars

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24 hours ending 2100 on 3 Nov 2010:

Highest max .. 17.2°C .. Yeovilton
Lowest max .. 6.5°C .. Dalwhinnie
Lowest min .. 2.8°C .. Loch Glascarnoch
Highest rainfall .. 17.6 mm .. Cassley
Sunniest .. 6.7 hours .. Kinloss

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24 hours ending 2100 on 4 Nov 2010:

Highest max .. 19.0°C .. St James Park
Lowest max .. 5.1°C .. Cassley
Lowest min .. -0.8°C .. Loch Glascarnoch
Highest rainfall .. 53.2 mm .. Keswick
Sunniest .. 5.1 hours .. Manston