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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 winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C ...
The city of Edinburgh had 18 cm (7 in) of snowfall. As a result of the chaos the city's airport was closed. ... In Örebro the coldest temperature in December since ...
Temperatures below -10C were recorded in some parts of northern Scotland, including Braemar in Aberdeenshire which reached a low of -11.2C. The last time -10.9C or lower was recorded on or before ...
The cold snap has been gripping Aberdeenshire, with overnight temperatures of -7.5C in Braemar [BBC] It would have been the coldest January night since -22.3C was logged in Altnaharra in 2010.
It would have to fall below -16C to be recorded as the coldest January temperature in Scotland since -22.3C was logged in Altnaharra in the Highlands in 2010.
The lowest temperature recorded in December was −25.2 °C (−13.4 °F) recorded in Shawbury, Shropshire on the 13th, and is the lowest December temperature recorded in England. Wales also recorded its lowest recorded December temperature during the cold wave, with a temperature of −22.7 °C (−8.9 °F) recorded at Corwen , Denbighshire ...
On the Isle of Lewis, one man died due to the very cold weather. [citation needed] The temperature dropped to −16 °C (3 °F) overnight in Dalwhinnie in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, and it fell to −10 °C (14 °F) in Edinburgh. Fresh overnight snowfall brought renewed problems to other parts of the United Kingdom.