THE ONLY ONLINE DATA RECORDED BY AN OBSERVER LIVING IN PITLOCHRY
It's often correctly said that Scotland has many of the extremes of weather that occur over Britain each day.
It is also equally true that these extremes tend to be more related to wettest or coldest spots, which was, incidentally, the case yesterday, leaving England with the sunniest & warmest places.
However, despite the long list of Scotland's remote (perhaps unheard of ) coldest & wettest spots--Loch Glascarnoch, Aultbea, Tulloch Bridge, Kinbrace, Altnaharra, Dalwhinnie----many familiar names from our daily newspapers---occasionally, just occasionally, Scottish places can take the day's record for sunshine hours or
high temperature. The Western Isles can sometimes be the sunniest, while parts ot the Moray Firth area, as well as parts of Aberdeenshire can have record warm days (Usually helped by the descent of air from the Cairngorms).
Worth adding that Britain's record coldest nights ever were:-
1st= BRAEMAR & ALTNAHARRA at -27.2
3rd GRANTOWN ON SPEY at -26.8 (not unfortunatelyon my watch!!)
Good again today, though somewhat more haze. Max 18
Friday similar. Saturday--cooler & fresher, but rainfall amounts fairly small. Max Temp 12
| Temperature at obs. time today 0855 | 5.7 |
| Maximum temperature (last 24hrs) | 16.7 |
| Minimum temperature (last 24hrs) | 1.1 |
| Grass minimum temperature (last 24hrs) | -3.0 |
| Rainfall total (last 24hrs) | nil |
| Barometer at observation time today | 1024mb |
| Wind at observation time today | variable 1 |
| This month’s highest temperature to date | 19.9 |
| This month’s lowest temperature to date | -0.5 |
| This month’s highest 24hr rainfall total to date | 2.6mm |
| THIS MONTH'S TOTAL RAINFALL TO DATE | 6.7mm |
AVERAGES & EXTREMES for PITLOCHRY in APRIL
| Avg. max. temperature | 11.3 | Long term avg. rainfall | 48.8mm |
| Avg min. temperature | 2.7 | Wettest month | 101.6mm |
| Record high temperature | 25.5 | Driest month | 2.8mm |
| Record low temperature | -5.7 |
For longer outlook periods,surface pressure charts, mountain weather & severe weather warnings, go to the Met Office's regional forecasts and click the relevant headings.
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