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Scotland and northern England, each event causing severe flooding – for example in Carlisle. The event of 28 to 29 July 1956, in contrast, saw the heaviest rain across northern Scotland, causing severe flooding in the Moray area. References: Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., et al., 1996

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

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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

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 November 20.6 4 November 1946 Liberton (Edinburgh) December 18.7 28 December 2019 Achfary (Sutherland

) 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

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

is sheltered from the rain-bearing westerly winds. This shelter reaches its greatest potential along the coasts of East Lothian, Fife and the Moray Firth and these areas receive less than 700 mm of rainfall in an average year. In contrast, the wettest area is the southern Grampians where the average