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Castle (Moray), with 35.6 °C at Bawtry, South Yorkshire on the 2nd being the UK record; this heatwave also set the Scotland record of 32.2 °C at Gordon Castle and the Northern Ireland record of 27.8 °C at Armagh. The 1906 event would appear to be the most notable September heatwave in observational
on a Turkish machine-gun position on a flat plateau with no cover. Milton Kershaw, 2nd Lieutenant Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 7 November 1914, during the first battle of Ypres. No known grave, remembered on the Menin Gate. Milton was a professor at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and worked
experienced far higher than average temperatures at the start of the month, with the village of Kinloss in Moray reaching 17.9°C on 7 November thanks in part, to the Foehn effect. Northern Ireland too had a particularly mild start to the month. The daily minimum temperature at Magilligan, County
) 02-12 October 972 mb, 90 knots Track forecast errors were low. There was a slight slow bias. Milton (14L) 05-10 October 897 mb, 155 knots Early forecasts predicted landfall too far south, but later forecasts predicted the landfall location well, although there were still errors in the timing
(Perth and Kinross) July 34.8 19 July 2022 Charterhall (Scottish Borders) August 32.9 9 August 2003 Greycrook (Scottish Borders) September 32.2 1 September 1906 Gordon Castle (Moray) October 27.4 3 October 1908 Tillypronie (Aberdeenshire) November 20.6 4 November 1946 Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden
) and -21.3°C at Kinbrace, Sutherland. Temperatures fell well below -10°C even on the coast, with -17.2°C at Tain Range, Cromarty, -15.2°C at Lossiemouth, Moray, - 15.2°C at Dyce, Aberdeen, -12.2°C at Leuchars, Fife and -13.0°C at Edinburgh, Gogarbank. Several stations in this area recorded their coldest
, Achnagart (Ross & Cromarty) wettest with 115.6 mm and Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty) having gusts touching 72 mph, with plenty of cloud elsewhere and a few showers or outbreaks of mainly light rain. It was particularly mild on the 11th, overnight at Kinloss (Moray) and Prestwick Gannet (Ayrshire
be interpreted cautiously because it is highly probable that one or more September days prior to 1960 may have been warmer. In particular, on 1 September 1906 the temperature exceeded 32°C as far as northern Scotland with (32.2°C at Gordon Castle, Moray) and 32 to 33°C widely across England
Highland and 165.8mm at Tyndrum, Perthshire, around half the December 1991-2020 average rainfall. While totals were less further east, because this is a climatologically much drier part of Scotland, anomalies were much higher, with 75.6mm at Lossiemouth and 77.2mm at Kinloss, both Moray, around 140
of damaging events such as winter cold, summer drought and windstorms) to enable advice to nurseries, foresters and policy makers on tree species suitability and diversification to be reframed. The user view Fiona McLay Findochty Harbour. Credit Moray Council Marion Shoote Fiona McLay (Senior Specialist
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