Lowest Temperature This Winter?

[James M]

I'm sure we had a similar thread last year, so would anybody like to hazard a guess?

I'll go for -20.4°C in somewhere like Braemar in early January.

Out of interest, does anybody have the data for the lowest official temp last winter?

Oh and if there is a similar thread knocking about apologies, just lock this one.

[Nights King]

With solar min and possible cold winter especialy in later half i feel anything is possible this year.

I shall go for a -21.8c in scotland late jan - early feb.

For myself i shall go for a chilly -14c at home complete guess of course.

The coldest recorded temperature in England was -26.1 degrees C, 10 January 1982 in Shawbury Shropshire

[suffolkboy_]

-17.0, Tulloch Bridge, late January

[Optimus Prime]

The lowest temperature last winter was -18.4 in February. Lowest since March 2001. I'll go for -12.3c.

Lowest temperatures of each year since 2000;

2000 -15.0 Dalmally (Argyll) 30 December

2001 -21.7 Kibrace (Caithneess) 3 March

2002 -16.1 Grantown 2 January

2003 -18.3 Aviemore 7 January

2004 -15.2 Kinbrace (Sutherland) 19 December

2005 -13.2 Ravensworth (North Yorks.) 29 December

2006 -16.4 Altnaharra 2 March

2007 -13.0 Aboyne 22 December

2008 -12.9 Aviemore 30 December

2009 -18.4 Aviemore 9 February

[memories of 63]

I'll go for -20 Deg C at Aviemore during late Jan

[Wynn D Woo]

Aviemore is always a good bet, so at that spot in Mid January down to -18.9C

Locally, -7.4C possibly around the same sort of time.

[kev2281]

Think I'll go for -18.9C, somewhere in Scotland

[SteveB]

-16.4c some where in Scotland.

[trickydicky]

I'm gonna say -21.2 at Spadeadam on New Years Eve. Its more likely to be in Scotland but i like underdogs

[Stargazer]

Thanks to OP for the information on recent winters. I'll go for -14.1, Aviemore, mid January.

[sunny scunny]

-17 Somewhere in scotland

[Backtrack]

Minus 17 in Aviemore in January. For here, minus 6.

[Methuselah]

-17.4C at Loch Glascarnoch in mid-January...

[LomondSnowstorm]

-16.8 at Altnaharra on the 3rd of January and about -8 here

[Northernlights]

-22.7c at Aviemore begining of February 2010 -12c here nearer the coast.

[MP-R]

As many have already said my guessed figure somewhere in Scotland, I will go for something like -6C or -7C here in early-mid January.

[Richie V]

-61ºc north east greenland

UK you say........... oops Highland -28ºc

Netweather tip of the day........................ If you want to type the degrees celcuis icon i.e 21ºC then for the º mark engauge your numeric lock, hold Alt and on the numeric pad type 1086 and release Alt. Looks better than 21C

[Don]

A little early to say but at the moment I will go for -17C in Aviemore. Not the lowest of temperatures as I feel this Winter will be on the mild side overall. As for my location, perhaps -5/6 as I'm now a little more rural than where I was previously.

[Roger J Smith]

-20.5 C second half of January ... could be south of Scotland too ... based on developing LRF concepts that include snow and cold in that part of winter.

[Eugene]

Wow some of you seem confident of very low <-20C minima, i`m going for -17C in scotland, got a feeling this is going to be another decent winter like last winter but not severe.

I hope some of you are aware temps -20C or lower have only been recorded twice this decade in the UK.

A little early to say but at the moment I will go for -17C in Aviemore. Not the lowest of temperatures as I feel this Winter will be on the mild side overall

Wow thats an excellent low figure for a winter on the mild side, top ten lowest UK minima it would make officially recorded since 1997.

[stewfox]

-61ºc north east greenland

UK you say........... oops Highland -28ºc

Didn't say the uk so -67.8c outside UK (In russia)

In the uk -21.7c in Braemar Scotland which according to the 'wrong kind of snow' book wins hands down for recording more record cold nights then anywhere else over the winter period.

-28c would be a new record cant see that happening

[MR EXTREMES]

-6C THIS WINTER GONNA BE MILD.

[SP1986]

-6C THIS WINTER GONNA BE MILD.

I'll be very impressed if nowhere manages to get -6C from this point on. Benson is likely to be the first to get this figure in England.

In reality I think Scotland as ever will have the lowest temperature this winter. I think -15C will be the final lowest temperature in Braemar or Aboyne!

[03jtrickey]

The lowest temperature recorded in the United Kingdom during Winter 2009/2010 will be -17.6 in Aboyne.

[Optimus Prime]

Wow thats an excellent low figure for a winter on the mild side, top ten lowest UK minima it would make officially recorded since 1997.

Perhaps but the very mild winter of 1997/1998 (winter mean slightly more then 2.0c above normal) still managed a low of -17.0c after a cold surge at the start of March 1998 (Altnahara) and March that year turned out exceptionally mild.