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The UK Weather Records note the most extreme weather ever recorded in the United Kingdom, such as the most and least hours of sunshine and highest wind speed.

Records

As at July 2006, the records were

Temperature

	°C	°F	Location	Date
Highest	38.5°C	101.3°F	Brogdale near Faversham, Kent	10 August 2003
Lowest	-27.2°C	-16.96°F	Braemar, Aberdeenshire	11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982
Lowest	-27.2°C	-16.96°F	Altnaharra, Sutherland	30 December 1995

Rainfall

Duration	Level	Location	Date
Highest 24-hour total	279 mm	Martinstown, near Dorchester, Dorset	18 July 1955
Highest 5-min total	32 mm	Preston, Lancashire	10 August 1893
Highest 30-min total	80 mm	Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire	26 June 1953
Highest 60-min total	92 mm	Maidenhead, Berkshire	12 July 1901
Highest 90-min total	117 mm	Dunsop Valley, Lancashire	8 August 1967
Highest 120-min total	193 mm	Walshaw Dean Lodge, Yorkshire	19 May 1989
2 hours	155 mm	Hewenden Reservoir, Yorkshire	11 June 1956
Highest 155-min total	169 mm	Hampstead, London	14 August 1975
Highest 180-min total	178 mm	Horncastle, Lincolnshire	7 October 1960

Sunshine

	Duration	Location	Date
Highest monthly total	384 hours	Eastbourne and Hastings, Sussex	July 1911
Lowest monthly total	0 hours	Westminster, London	December 1890

Wind speed

Ground Level	Wind Speed			Location	Date
Ground Level	mph	km/h	knots	Location	Date
Low level	142	228	123	Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire	13 February 1989
High level	173	278	150	Cairngorms	20 March 1986

Shetland holds the unofficial British record for wind speed, which in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph (285 km/h) at RAF Saxa Vord—just before the measuring equipment blew away.

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