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) 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

. While parts of East Anglia may be close to average, areas such as East Wales, southwest England and Yorkshire could see temperatures 8–9°C above normal. Scotland is also warming up, with the peak expected on Sunday, particularly around the Moray Firth. Thanks to the Foehn effect, where air warms

, 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

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

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

recording stations have measured 52cm in Oyne (Aberdeenshire) and 50cm in Tomintoul (Moray). North and mid Wales have also seen significant accumulations, with Sennybridge reporting 13cm. North Yorkshire’s Whitby recorded 9cm. READ MORE: December 2025 weather stats: A regional breakdown Of course

the exceptional nature of that early September heatwave. READ MORE: How is temperature measured? Scotland’s record high is 32.2°C, set at Gordon Castle (Moray) on 1 September 1906, while Wales reached 32.3°C, at Hawarden Bridge (Clwyd) on the same day. Northern Ireland’s warmest September day

were 82mph at Wick Airport, Caithness, 81mph at Fair Isle, Shetland, 79mph at Kinloss, Moray and South Uist, Western Isles, 78mph at Tain Range, Ross & Cromarty and 77mph at Inverbervie, Kincardineshire. Wick Airport equalled Scotland’s August gust speed record. The storm was one of the most severe

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

was destroyed in Milton Keynes and several homes were damaged by fires in Maltby, Rotherham. There were some problems with power cuts in parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North East. In some areas gritters spread sand on some roads after surfaces began to melt. In North Yorkshire, the Aysgarth