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in Glasgow alone. Highest gust speeds (from low level sites): Tiree 102 knots (118 mph) Bell Rock 96 knots (111 mph) Leuchars 92 knots (106 mph) Turnhouse 90 knots (104 mph) Prestwick 90 knots (104 mph) Abbotsinch 89 knots (103 mph) Anemogram for Abbotsinch for 14/15 January 1968, showing a highest
rainfall Writtle 12.0 mm Sunniest Wittering 1.0 hours UK extremes Parameter Location Value Highest maximum temperature Teddington Bushy Park 20.8 °C Lowest maximum temperature Loch Glascarnoch 10.2 °C Lowest minimum temperature Aboyne 4.5 °C Highest rainfall Aultbea 15.0 mm Sunniest Prestwick 7.0
Sunniest Prestwick 7.0 hours About extremes Highest maximum temperature - (0900 to 2100 on the date shown) Lowest maximum temperature - (0900 to 2100 on the date shown) Lowest minimum temperature - (2100 on the previous day to 0900 on the date shown) Highest rainfall -(2100 on the previous day to 2100
at Greycrook (Borders) on 9 August 2003. The previous record of 32.8 °C was set almost a century before in Dumfries on 2 July 1908. Other examples of extreme high temperatures that have occurred in the region are 32.2 °C at Prestwick and Kilmarnock on 29 July 1948, and 31.7 °C at Buchlyvie (west
. There was also a marked regional variation across the UK. In Scotland Prestwick (Ayrshire) had only 39.2mm of rain and Skye had only 52mm of its 99.5mm average. In another reversal of the norm, April was also cooler than March, the first time this has happened since 1998. Quite often when we think
