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England is also sunnier throughout the year than Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the sunniest month is July, with an average of 193.5 hours. It rains on fewer days every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May, averaging 58.4 mm (2.30 in). [3]
Highest monthly total (UK national average) [11] 266 hours UK (national average) May 2020 Highest monthly total (England) [2] 383.9 hours Eastbourne, Sussex: July 1911 Highest monthly total (Northern Ireland) [2] 298 hours Mount Stewart, County Down: June 1940 Highest monthly total (Scotland) [2] 329.1 hours Tiree, Argyll & Bute: May 1975
With an average temperature of −2.1 °C (28.2 °F), [10] January 1963 remains the coldest month since January 1814 in Central England, although for the UK as a whole [11] and in Northern England, [12] Scotland [13] and Northern Ireland [14] February 1947 and February 1895 were colder, whilst December 2010 was also colder in Northern Ireland.
The sea's influence in the south-west usually prevents cold temperatures, however temperatures can plummet during periods of cold easterly air flow: all of which have been recorded in January. In 1987 the minimum temperature recorded at St Mawgan, Cornwall was −9 °C (16 °F) and −7.2 °C (19.0 °F) was noted on the Isles of Scilly.
The temperature at Altnaharra was minus 16.7C, the coldest temperature recorded there since 2010, the Met Office said.
Scotland occupies the cooler northern section of Great Britain, so temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the British Isles, with the coldest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra, Highland, on 30 December 1995.
The UK recorded its coldest night of this winter so far with sub-zero temperatures across the country - but the mercury could fall even lower on Friday night with the Met Office predicting a ...
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