Winter 17/18 lowest min temp watch

[damianslaw]

3 hours ago, hillbilly said:

1977 -18.7 Lagganlia (Highland) 17 January

1978 -22.0 Keith (Grampian) 20 February

1979 -24.6 Carnwath (Strathclyde) 13 January

1980 -17.5 Clashnoir (Grampian) 2 January

1981 -25.2 Shawbury (Shrops.) 13 December

1982 -27.2 Braemar 10 January

1983 -14.2 Lagganlia 19 February

1984 -23.6 Grantown-on-Spey 20 January

1985 -23.4 Lagganlia (Highland) 27 January

1986 -21.2 Grantown-on-Spey 27 February

1987 -23.3 Caldecott (Leics.) 13 January

Amazng how these minimums compare to the ones on recent years!

six of thes minimums are colder than every year in the last 30 years except that in 1995!

Thanks for these stats. Jan 2010 produced very low minima as well, I think -22 degrees. Not sure what the low was in Dec 2010. -14 degrees then the current low, still February to go and is more likely to produce a settled high pressure frost spell than January, and you can see very low minima well into March as well. 

[cheeky_monkey]

Lowest temperature recorded here this season is -36.2c on 28th Dec 17

[damianslaw]

Resurrecting this thread, its been dead since 22 January! Alas might we see our coldest min Wednesday night into Thursday in England at least. -13 degrees to beat... I very much doubt it though due to cloud cover and wind strength, really could have done with a ridge then some very cold minima would have been produced.

However, for many the coldest mean value of the winter will occur on its last day, and also coldest maxima.

 

[damianslaw]

Keep resurrecting this thread - no response.. tonight could be the coldest of the season so far in England at least, we have -13 degrees to beat, we went close to -12 degrees last night.Given we have lower uppers tonight and some deep snow cover, could end up below this..

 

 

[virtualsphere]

Could we get a lower minimum in spring than winter, if it's lower tomorrow night than tonight?

[Norrance]

10 minutes ago, virtualsphere said:

Could we get a lower minimum in spring than winter, if it's lower tomorrow night than tonight?

Wouldn't be the first time. March 2001 was sub -20C and colder than any Winter month in what was a cool Winter, at least in the North.

[Evening thunder]

I saw Headcorn Aerodrome in Kent was reporting -15C this morning, not sure what the exact lowest was or whether it's an official site

[damianslaw]

Official lowest min was -11.9 in South Farnborough I think.

Not sure about Scotland - would be good to know.

March 2001 was a very cold start thanks to a bitter northerly airstream delivering heavy snow to much of Scotland and NE Eng, and then we had a ridge, light winds and deep snow cover, produced those exceptionally low temps.

[hillbilly]

MARCH
�	C	F	�
1	-20.0	-4.0	Lagganlia (Highland) 1986
2	-20.0	-4	Braemar (Aberdeenshire) 1965
3	-21.7	-7	Corwen (Denbigh) 1965; Kinbrace (Highland) 2001
4	-21.1	-6	Houghall (Durham), Peebles (Borders), Braemar (Aberdeenshire) 1947
5	-17.8	0	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1947
6	-20.0	-4	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1947
7	-18.9	-2	Alston (Cumbria) 1886
8	-21.1	-6	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1947
9	-19.4	-3	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1917
10	-15.0	5	Rickmansworth (Herts) 1931
11	-19.4	-3	Logie Coldstone (Aberdeenshire) 1958
12	-22.2	-8	Grantown-on-Spey (Highland) 1958
13	-13.9	7	Logie Coldstone (Aberdeenshire)1958
14	-22.8	-9	Logie Coldstone (Aberdeenshire) 1958
15	-16.7	2	Braemar (Aberdeenshire) 1947
16	-16.1	3	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1892
17	-16.4	2.4	Braemar (Aberdeenshire) 1888
18	-16.7	1.9	Grantown-on-Spey (Highland) 1985
19	-16.5	2.3	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1979
20	-16.1	3	Newport (Shropshire) 1930
21	-16.1	3	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1899
22	-12.8	9	Lairg (Highland) 1899
23	-14.2	6.4	Braemar (Aberdeenshire)1883
24	-13.3	8	Newton Rigg (Cumbria) 1916                                                      coldest temps for each day in March,will take some beating !

[hillbilly]

1 hour ago, virtualsphere said:

Could we get a lower minimum in spring than winter, if it's lower tomorrow night than tonight?

March has taken the coldest day of the year 14 times since 1900 and has been as late as 20th March.