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  1979 Met Office Daily Extremes          
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  DWS Midas Data 24 hours 9am to 9am   DWS Midas Data 24 hours 9am to 9am   DWS Midas Data 24 hours 9am to 9am  
  Minimum Temperatures   Lowest Maximum Temperatures   Highest Maximum Temperatures  
         
Jan-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am .......        
1st Magherally (Northern Ireland) -17.5 Pending   Pending  
2nd Magherally (Northern Ireland) -16.8        
3rd Sutton Bonnington (Nottinghamshire) -16.2        
4th Sutton Bonnington (Nottinghamshire) -15.7        
5th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -17.0        
6th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -16.9        
7th Bracknell Beaufort (Berkshire / East Hoathly (East Sussex) -11.4        
8th Parkmore Forest (Northern Ireland) -3.5        
9th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -7.0        
10th Lairg No2 (Sutherland) -12.1        
11th Cumnock (East Ayrshire) -11.5        
12th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -16.6        
13th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -24.6        
14th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -24.3        
15th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -18.2        
16th Altnahinch Filters (Northern Ireland) -5.5        
17th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -8.2        
18th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -8.3        
19th North Hessary Tor (Cornwall) -6.4        
20th North Hessary Tor (Cornwall) -6.1        
21st Barbrook (Derbyshire) -6.0        
22nd Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -10.2        
23rd Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -10.2        
24th Usk (Monmouthshire) -14.0        
25th Trowbridge (Wiltshire) -12.7        
26th Widdybank Fell (County Durham) -13.0        
27th Grendon Underwood (Bucks) / Coventry Airport (W Midlands) -14.9        
28th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -19.0        
29th Northampton Moulton Park (Northamptonshire) -14.4        
30th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -8.1        
31st Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -12.4        
             
Feb-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -10.0        
2nd Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -14.1        
3rd Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -11.3        
4th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -13.2        
5th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -15.0        
6th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -15.1        
7th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -14.8        
8th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -14.6        
9th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -16.4        
10th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -13.6        
11th Alwen (Conwy) -4.8        
12th Fyvie Castle (Aberdeenshire) -6.5        
13th Letchworth (Hertfordshire) -5.0        
14th Moor House (Cumbria) -8.4        
15th Gartly (Aberdeenshire) -12.6        
16th Craigdarroch (Ross & Cromarty) -15.7        
17th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -13.2        
18th Alwen (Conwy) -6.5        
19th Alwen (Conwy) -6.2        
20th Alwen (Conwy) -5.8        
21st Alwen (Conwy) -3.5        
22nd Dundeugh (Dumfries & Galloway) -4.0        
23rd Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -3.8        
24th Alwen (Conwy) -9.0        
25th Monks Wood (Cambridgeshire) -9.2        
26th Bastreet (Cornwall) -8.1        
27th Grendon Underwood (Buckiinghamshire) -7.0        
28th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -5.6        
             
Mar-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) -6.0        
2nd Lowtown No2 (Northern Ireland) -3.4        
3rd Palnure No2 (Dumfries & Galloway) -1.2        
4th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -2.2        
5th Edenbridge (Kent) -5.2        
6th Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) -0.9        
7th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -3.7        
8th Pickering (North Yorkshire) -4.2        
9th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -3.7        
10th Clashnoir (Moray) -5.2        
11th Alwen (Conwy) -2.4        
12th Lairg No2 (Sutherland) -3.2        
13th Nunraw Abbey (East Loathian) -2.6        
14th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -5.4        
15th Alwen (Conwy) -4.2        
16th Alwen (Conwy) -4.7        
17th Alwen (Conwy) -5.2        
18th Gartly (Aberdeenshire) -11.9        
19th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -16.5        
20th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -15.3        
21st Loughall (Noerthern Ireland) -6.7        
22nd Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -8.1        
23rd Alwen (Conwy) -10.0        
24th Alwen (Conwy) -7.8        
25th Divis Mountain (Northern Ireland) -3.2        
26th Divis Mountain (Northern Ireland) -5.1        
27th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -6.4        
28th Moor House (Cumbria) -7.3        
29th Barbrook (Derbyshire) -1.7        
30th Kilchrenan (Argyll & Bute) -5.1        
31st Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -4.1        
             
Apr-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Stonehaven (Kincardineshire) -2.0        
2nd Balmoral (Aberdeenshire) -6.5        
3rd Moor House (Cumbria) -7.7        
4th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) -5.9        
5th Moor House (Cumbria) -8.9        
6th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -7.2        
7th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) -3.9        
8th Parkmore Forest (Northern Ireland) -1.4        
9th Kinloss (Moray) -2.6        
10th Moor House (Cumbria) -1.7        
11th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) 0.4        
12th Tavistock (Devon) 1.2        
13th Caistor (Lincolnshire) 0.6        
14th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -4.9        
15th Altaveedan Water Works (Northern Ireland) -1.5        
16th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -3.2        
17th Alwen (Conwy) -3.0        
18th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -5.1        
19th Folkestone Fairway Avenue (Kent) -0.2        
20th Balmoral (Aberdeenshire) 0.6        
21st Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -0.8        
22nd Gatwick Airport (West Sussex) -0.6        
23rd Marchmont (Lothian) -0.5        
24th Carnwath (South Lankarkshire) -0.6        
25th Kielder Castle (Northumberland) -0.7        
26th Moor House (Cumbria) -1.6        
27th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -3.9        
28th West Linton (Scottish Borders) 1.7        
29th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -3.1        
30th Clashnoir (Moray) -3.4        
             
May-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Lairg No2 (Sutherland) -3.8        
2nd Moor House (Cumbria) -5.4        
3rd Glenmore Lodge (Inverness-shire) -3.9        
4th Eskdalemuir (Dumfries & Galloway) -7.1        
5th Alwen (Conwy) -5.8        
6th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -4.4        
7th Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) -2.6        
8th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -5.6        
9th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -3.2        
10th Lagganlia (inverness-shire) -5.7        
11th Seahouses (Northumberland) 1.4        
12th Kielder Castle (Northumberland) 2.1        
13th Cwmystwyth (Ceredigion) 4.0        
14th Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) 3.5        
15th Ladock (Cornwall) / Tenby (Pembrokeshire) 4.0        
16th Lizard (Cornwall) 1.5        
17th Altnahinch Filters (Northern Ireland) 1.3        
18th Knockanrock (Ross & Cromarty) 1.0        
19th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -3.6        
20th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) -1.7        
21st Lisnaskea Creamery (Northern Ireland) -1.0        
22nd Divis Mountain (Northern Ireland) 0.5        
23rd Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -1.0        
24th Ladock (Cornwall) 0.0        
25th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -3.1        
26th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -2.1        
27th Tomatin (Inverness-shire) 0.0        
28th Grantown on Spey (Moray) 1.6        
29th Nettlecpmbe (Somerset) 3.3        
30th Lizard (Cornwall) 0.8        
31st Baltasound (Shetland Isles) 4.0        
             
Jun-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 0.8        
2nd Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -1.1        
3rd Achany No2 (Ross & Cromarty) 3.1        
4th Slaidburn (Lancashire) 3.5        
5th Lizard (Cornwall) 2.9        
6th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) 0.5        
7th Bargrennan (Dumfries & Galloway) 0.2        
8th Alwen (Conwy) 1.5        
9th Bargrennan (Dumfries & Galloway) 1.1        
10th Lairg No2 (Sutherland) 1.8        
11th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) 0.6        
12th Woburn (Bedfordshire) 3.4        
13th Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) 5.0        
14th Cwmystradllyn (Ceredigion) 3.0        
15th Letchworth (Hertfordshire) 0.0        
16th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) 3.9        
17th Eskdalemuir (Dumfries & Galloway) 2.0        
18th Alwen (Conwy) 3.3        
19th Alwen (Conwy) 4.7        
20th Ladock (Cornwall) / Tavistock (Devon) 6.0        
21st Orielton  (Pembrokeshire) 5.6        
22nd Carmarthen (Carmarthenshire) 3.8        
23rd Moel Cynnedd (Powys) / Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) 3.7        
24th Parkmore Forest (Northern Ireland) 1.1        
25th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 2.4        
26th Hawkridge (Somerset) 2.0        
27th Alwen (Conwy) / Dundeugh (Dumfries & Galloway) -0.5        
28th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 4.3        
29th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) 4.6        
30th Usk (Monmouthshire) 3.8        
             
Jul-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) 0.6        
2nd Nettlecombe Birds Hill (Somerset) 3.3        
3rd Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 3.0        
4th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 2.3        
5th Alwen (Conwy) 4.3        
6th Letchworth (Hertfordshire) 6.5        
7th Rumleigh (Devon) 7.5        
8th Whitehillocks (Angus) 2.7        
9th Nettlecombe Birds Hill (Somerset) 3.3        
10th Whitehillocks (Angus) 2.3        
11th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) 0.3        
12th Letchworth (Hertfordshire) 1.0        
13th Letchworth (Hertfordshire) 2.5        
14th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) 3.3        
15th Loughermore Forest (Northern Ireland) 3.0        
16th Nettlecombe Birds Hill (Somerset) 3.4        
17th Balmoral (Aberdeenshire) 7.1        
18th Divis Mountain (Northern Ireland) 7.3        
19th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) 6.0        
20th Whitehillocks (Angus) 4.0        
21st Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) / Keiss (Caithness) 4.6        
22nd Ladock (Cornwall) 3.5        
23rd Bargrennan (Dumfries & Galloway) 2.7        
24th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 5.2        
25th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) 2.2        
26th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 5.6        
27th Elmstone No2 (Kent) 6.5        
28th Halesowen (West Midlands) 5.4        
29th Divis Mountain (Northern Ireland) 10.1        
30th Glenmore Lodge (Inverness-shire) 6.9        
31st Murlough (northern Ireland) 4.9        
             
Aug-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Strathconon (Ross & Cromarty) 5.1        
2nd Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 4.0        
3rd Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) 6.1        
4th Alwen (Conwy) 2.0        
5th Grantown on Spey (Moray) 3.2        
6th Letcombe Regis (Oxfordshire) 6.3        
7th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 2.7        
8th Lough Braden (Northern Ireland) 5.4        
9th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) 1.2        
10th Eskdalemuir (Dumfries & Galloway) 2.3        
11th Forehill (Aberdennshire) 6.0        
12th Baltasound (Shetland Isles) 5.5        
13th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) 7.4        
14th Corpach (inverness-shire) 7.6        
15th Cwmystradllyn (Ceredigion) 5.0        
16th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 4.0        
17th Gelsgeil (Sutherland) 6.6        
18th Lisnaskea Creamery (Northern Ireland) 6.0        
19th Nettlecombe (Somerset) 3.5        
20th Nettlecombe (Somerset) 3.4        
21st Fyvie Castle (Aberdeenshire) 5.0        
22nd Parkmore Forest / Redesdale Camp 4.0        
23rd Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) 2.8        
24th Bargrennan (Dumfries & Galloway) 2.5        
25th Moor House (Cumbria) 0.2        
26th Camps Resevoir (South Lanarkshire) 2.2        
27th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) 0.4        
28th Grendon Underwood (Buckinghamshire) 0.0        
29th Moel Cynnedd (Powys) 0.5        
30th Eskdalemuir (Dumfries & Galloway) -0.9        
31st Tavistock (Devon) 3.1        
             
Sep-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Usk (Monmouthshire) 7.0        
2nd Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) 7.8        
3rd Grantown on Spey (Moray) 4,9        
4th Balmoral (Aberdeenshire) 5.1        
5th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) 4.7        
6th Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) 5.3        
7th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) / Pickering 5.5        
8th Butser Hillhampton / Dalwhinnie No2 5.5        
9th Lough Navar Forest (Northern Ireland) 3.2        
10th Alwen (Conwy) 1.6        
11th Bastreet (Cornwall) 2.4        
12th Balmoral (Aberdeenshire) 2.9        
13th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) 3.8        
14th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -2.9        
15th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -6.1        
16th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -1.0        
17th Writtle (Essex) 1.7        
18th Bwichgwyn (County of Wrexham) 5.5        
19th Fyvie Castle (Aberdeenshire) 4.0        
20th Whitehillocks (Angus) 1.2        
21st Ludlow Water Works (Shropshire) 0.0        
22nd Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -5.1        
23rd Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) -1.4        
24th Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) -2.0        
25th Snaizeholme (North Yorkshire) 0.4        
26th Cwmystwyth (Ceredigion) 1.9        
27th Cwmystwyth (Ceredigion) -2.1        
28th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -1.7        
29th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -4.1        
30th Bowhill (Scottish Borders) -1.0        
             
Oct-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st March (Cambridgeshire) 2.7        
2nd Wallingford (Oxfordshire) 0.1        
3rd Aberystwyth Corpoartion Yard (Ceredigion) 1.1        
4th Falmouth (Cornwall) 5.5        
5th Alwen (Conwy) -1.3        
6th Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) -2.0        
7th Redesdale Camp (Northumberland) 0.3        
8th Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) 6.5        
9th Usk (Monmouthshire) 5.5        
10th Gogerddan (Ceredigion) 5.4        
11th Gogerddan (Ceredigion) 2.3        
12th Lairg No2 (Sutherland) 2.3        
13th Lagganlia (Inverness-shire) -1.6        
14th Usk (Monmouthshire) 1.0        
15th Grendon Underwood (Buckinghamshire) 1.5        
16th Dall Rannoch School (Perth & Kinross) 1.0        
17th Moor House (Cumbria) -0.7        
18th Lough Braden / Craigdarroch 1.9        
19th Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) 1.4        
20th Dundeugh (Dumfries & Galloway) -0.9        
21st Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) -3.5        
22nd Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) -2.0        
23rd Wingerworth No2 (Derbyshire) 0.1        
24th Warsop (Nottinghamshire) -1.1        
25th Buxton (Derbyshire) 2.2        
26th Lough Navar Forest (Northern Ireland) -1.4        
27th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -1.8        
28th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -4.6        
29th Achany No2 (Sutherland) -2.8        
30th Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -3.8        
31st East Dereham Neatherd (Norfolk) 0.1        
             
Nov-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) -1.1        
2nd Santon Downham Grimes Graves (Norfolk) -3.8        
3rd Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) -2.7        
4th Scatsta (Shetland Isles) 2.6        
5th Stonehaven (Aberdeenshire) 0.9        
6th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -2.6        
7th Dalwhinnie No2 (Inverness-shire) -6.4        
8th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -4.5        
9th Lagganlia (inverness-shire) -3.5        
10th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -6.7        
11th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -4.6        
12th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -8.5        
13th West Linton (Scottish Borders) -11.6        
14th Braemar (Aberdeenshire) -9.5        
15th Lisnaskea Creamery (Northern Ireland) -4.5        
16th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -8.7        
17th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -6.8        
18th Anglesey Llyn Alaw (Isle of Anglsey) -1.5        
19th Kielder Castle (Northumberland) -0.8        
20th Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -6.8        
21st Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -6.4        
22nd Cenarth (Carmarthenshire) / Elmstone No2 (Kent) -4.0        
23rd Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) -2.5        
24th Butser Hillhampton (Hampshire) -5.1        
25th Edenbridge (Kent) -4.8        
26th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -0.1        
27th Grantown on Spey (Moray) -3.1        
28th Tomatin (Inverness-shire) -1.5        
29th Edenbridge (Kent) -3.2        
30th Hurstpierpoint No2 (West Sussex) -3.4        
             
Dec-79 DWS Midas data 24 hours 9am to 9am          
1st Culterty No2 (Aberdeenshire) / Keiss (Caithness) 2.7        
2nd Morpetrh (Northumberland) -0.2        
3rd Grantown on Spey (Moray) -1.7        
4th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) / Clashnoir (Moray) -0.5        
5th Lagganlia (inverness-shire) -0.2        
6th Wiseton (Nottinghamshire) -2.0        
7th Glenmore Lodge (Inverness-shire) -1.5        
8th Baltasound(Shetland Isles) -0.6        
9th Grantown on Spey (Moray) -1.3        
10th Grantown on Spey (Moray) 0.7        
11th Kinbrace Hatchery (Sutherland) -3.4        
12th Grantown on Spey (Moray) -6.2        
13th Grantown on Spey (Moray) -6.0        
14th Hillsborough (Northern Ireland) -3.9        
15th Kilchrenan (Argyll & Bute) -5.0        
16th Kilchrenan (Argyll & Bute) -7.7        
17th Botwnnog  (Gwynedd) -2.8        
18th High Mowthorpe (North Yorkshire) -4.4        
19th Betws-y-Coed (Conwy) -6.1        
20th Corwen (Denbigshire) -4.6        
21st Tregaron No2 (Ceredigion) -5.7        
22nd Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -9.0        
23rd Carnwath (South Lanarkshire) -9.2        
24th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) / Clashnoir (Moray) -7.2        
25th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) / Clashnoir (Moray) -7.7        
26th Medmenham Water Research (Buckinghamshire) -7.0        
27th Hurstpierpoint No2 (West Sussex) -5.0        
28th Kindrogan (Perth & Kinross) / Clashnoir (Moray) -5.6        
29th Lagganlia (inverness-shire) -9.7        
30th Lagganlia (inverness-shire) -10.7        
31st Cumnoch (East Ayrshire) -6.5        
             
Credits Starlings Roost Weather          
  Met Office          
  Midas Cedar Archive