Minimum Temperature Watch 2024-2025 season

[hillbilly]

Astonishing how it had already hit -23.3 deg on 14th November in 1919!

[Sawel]

Braemar -11.2C overnight.

 

[damianslaw]

 Sawel Good going for this stage in the season. Might we go lower this eve. Many a winter month produces nothing close. 

[Sawel]

 damianslaw It'll be too breezy tonight and tomorrow night for temperatures to drop as low. Overnight Friday could see very low temperatures as the NW winds clear with a brief period of calm before the low moves across on Saturday. 

MO forecast predicts Tomintoul being the coldest with -11C overnight friday. Ive said it before - it's a shame there's no official weather station there as it is often forecast to be the coldest area after snow associated with northerly winds. Many a frigid temperature has gone unrecorded there.

Edited November 19, 2024 by Sawel

[damianslaw]

Reports for minima this morning England and Scotland.. tonight looks very cold, can we beat -11.2 Braemar? 

[Aleman]

Is Shap's -7.0C coldest for England so far because we already have a -6.6C at Grisedale in Wensleydale this evening, so looking set to probably beat that. Who knows? It might even beat Braemar's -11.2C.

Edited November 20, 2024 by Aleman

[cheese]

-5C here, a really unexpectedly frigid morning.

[Aleman]

-6.5C at mine and I'm only semirural.  (Coldest night here in 9 years residence. Colder than the Beast from the East.)  -9.7C at TubHoleBarn, above Dent. If altitude is too high for that, then we have -8.7C at York Weather Station (new "educational" independent) and a few other independents below -8C.  There could still be lower somewhere.

Edited November 21, 2024 by Aleman

[cyclonic happiness]

Minus 3.2'c here in Warwickshire

[Methuselah]

-4C here; coldest morning so far.

[damianslaw]

Widely below -7 degrees many spots in Cumbria. Good to note lowest mins. 

[Boro Snow]

-5c here, Beautiful morning for a dog walk

[Sawel]

A Manual Met-Office Site (like mine) in Bewcastle, just NW of Spadeadam in the extreme north of England recorded a low of -10.2C overnight.

[damianslaw]

 Sawel Brrr!!! Cumbria cold pole.. that is good going given no snow cover.

Scotland tomorrow night could bring coldest min of season so far.

A very decent cold spell for so early in the season, many a winter month produces nothing anywhere near as cold.. 

Edited November 21, 2024 by damianslaw

[Midlands Ice Age]

Dropped to -3.9C last night. The coldest for the winter so far. (Central Birminghamish )

MIA

[Sawel]

 damianslaw  Yep, tomorrow night will be a very cold one. Most places will cloud over by 3-4am so not a full night of cooling but definitely going to be very cold before then. -11.2C should be beaten.

[Ross90]

-4.3c here last night was the coldest so far, might actually have been the coldest night of the year as I can't recall anything that cold in Jan or Feb.

[Aleman]

I note the lowest for the auto Met stations in England is now taken by Topcliffe's -9.4C for yesterday. Nothing wrong with the -10.2C near Spadeadam in my book, though I note the altitude must be pushing 1000 feet there, so I consider Topcliffe's a greater indicative of a wider deep cold at low levels. The whole Vale of York was extremely cold, with Leeming recording -8.5C.  Canals might have started freezing over at that. (We have 35mm thick ice in a bucket in the garden.) Today's 0C start feels warm in comparison!

[Sawel]

 Aleman  The manual Met-Office site at the 'Bewcastle House of Prayer' in Cumbria is 133 metres above sea level which is half the altitude of Shap and 100 metres lower than Spadeadam. All readings from the Auto and Manual sites get quality controlled at the end of the month and the official final extremes are then published in the 'Daily Weather Summary' on the Met-Office website - 

Daily Weather Summary

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Access the complete series of the Daily Weather Summary from 1860 to date

 

Edited November 22, 2024 by Sawel

[damianslaw]

Expected min early hours, possibly -12 in NE Scotland? Lowest min of season so far.

[jules216]

Location I recommended to instal doing rather well tonight

[Aleman]

 Sawel Thanks for clarifying. I was thinking incorrectly that you might be a bit higher than Spadeadam to get the lower temperature. As I said, I thought -10.2C nearing 1000 feet was okay but half that means no qualification necessary.

[A Winter's Tale]

Already down to -11.2C at Kinbrace. -11.0C at Loch Glascarnoch. The date record for the 23rd of November is -12.2C.

[damianslaw]

 A Winter's Tale Ooh good chance beat it.. this has been a notable cold spell for mid November. 

[dryfie]

 jules216 Just out of interest, how often does the Met O have to inspect a site before the readings are considered ‘official’?  What is most important to them, the site or the accuracy and conformity of the instrumentation?  Thanks.