Coldest minima winter 2020-2021 season

[Aleman]

"Temperatures in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, dropped to minus 15.3C overnight on Thursday, a record February low for England."

Https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9252937/Big-freeze-continues-Britain-told-brace-four-inches-snow-50mph-gales-today.html

 

Look  North tonight said it got to -16C without mentioning a record. Was -15.3C a record? It seems a little lower than  would expect. Maybe it was a record low for Ravensworth?
 

[hillbilly]

1 hour ago, Aleman said:

"Temperatures in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, dropped to minus 15.3C overnight on Thursday, a record February low for England."

Https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9252937/Big-freeze-continues-Britain-told-brace-four-inches-snow-50mph-gales-today.html

 

Look  North tonight said it got to -16C without mentioning a record. Was -15.3C a record? It seems a little lower than  would expect. Maybe it was a record low for Ravensworth?
 

It is no English record ,2012 got to -18.3 on 11th February in Buckingham

[Mr Frost]

On 10/02/2021 at 11:53, Mr Frost said:

The official (Met Office) lowest temperature of Winter 2011/12 was -15.6C at Holbeach, Lincolnshire on 11/02/2012.

 

Met Office tweet from December 2012:

 

@hillbilly that temperature you mentioned above was unofficial.

Recorded official minimum temperature for that Winter/month is shown above in my quoted post (also in the Met Office tweet below) - Trevor Harley website information is wrong.

 

@Aleman @damianslaw Official lowest temperature in England this Winter so far in the tweet below 
Definitely not an all time minimum February record for England - ignore the papers nonsense. 

 

Edited February 13, 2021 by Mr Frost

[damianslaw]

9 hours ago, Mr Frost said:

@hillbilly that temperature you mentioned above was unofficial.

Recorded official minimum temperature for that Winter/month is shown above in my quoted post (also in the Met Office tweet below) - Trevor Harley website information is wrong.

 

@Aleman @damianslaw Official lowest temperature in England this Winter so far in the tweet below 
Definitely not an all time minimum February record for England - ignore the papers nonsense. 

 

Thanks, have we a  list of coldest months in England for each year, see how it compares..

Edited February 13, 2021 by damianslaw

[damianslaw]

Could someone post the England current minimum value for the season.

Still time to beat it, but perhaps a tall order now on, but early-mid March can still deliver very low cold temperatures. The Scottish figure looks safe though.

[Ǝssex Ǝasterly]

5 hours ago, damianslaw said:

Could someone post the England current minimum value for the season.

Still time to beat it, but perhaps a tall order now on, but early-mid March can still deliver very low cold temperatures. The Scottish figure looks safe though.

-15.3c in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire on Feb 11th 

[damianslaw]

2 hours ago, Essex Easterly said:

-15.3c in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire on Feb 11th 

Ok thanks for that.

[hillbilly]

8 hours ago, damianslaw said:

Could someone post the England current minimum value for the season.

Still time to beat it, but perhaps a tall order now on, but early-mid March can still deliver very low cold temperatures. The Scottish figure looks safe though.

Yes still possible,-22.8 deg has been recorded in Scotland as late as 14th March so still theoretically possible .

Also -21.1 deg has been recorded in England as late as 4th March and -15 deg has been set as late as 2nd April in England!

[Relativistic]

It's a shame because had conditions been a little more favourable England might have recorded a much lower minimum. Minus 15.3C isn't bad, but England can certainly do much better.

Was great to see the -23C in Braemar though!!

Edited February 20, 2021 by Relativistic

[damianslaw]

11 hours ago, Relativistic said:

It's a shame because had conditions been a little more favourable England might have recorded a much lower minimum. Minus 15.3C isn't bad, but England can certainly do much better.

Was great to see the -23C in Braemar though!!

Perhaps lack of deep snow cover combined with light winds reason why. There was still a bit of a NE wind on the night when -15.3 recorded, needed more of a ridge to build over the UK, Scotland was closer to the centre of heights to the NE.

Last week feels a world away from this weekend, when many are unlikely to see mons drop much into the high low single digits, indeed for many double digit mins. A classic cold to mild winter switcharound.