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THE coldest temperature ever recorded during a UK winter was -27.2C, which was clocked in the village of Braemar in the Scottish Highlands. The same temperature was recorded twice, on February 11, 1895 and on January 10, 1982. THE most amount of rain to fall in a five-minute period lashed Preston on August 10, 1893, with 32mm pouring over the Lancashire city in 300 seconds. EASTBOURNE holds the record for the highest amount of sunshine in a month, clocking up 383.9 hours in July 1911. CRIB Goch, Snowdon, holds the record for the highest monthly total of rainfall, with 1,396.4mm in December 2015. IN October 2000, the UK experienced the wettest autumn in 200 years. Five major rivers burst their banks as gusts of 93mph battered the country.
More than 10,000 homes and businesses were flooded at 700 locations.
It was estimated that the cost of the damage was more than £1billion. THE highest temperature recorded in Britain was 38.5C on August 10, 2003, in Faversham, Kent. GUSTS reached a record breaking 142mph in Fraserburgh, Aberdeens, on February 13, 1989. THE warmest temperature ever recorded in March was 25.6C in Mepal, Cambs, on March 29, 1968. THE coldest was -22.8C in Logie Coldstone, Aberdeens, on March 14, 1958. IN 1703, the worst storm to ever hit the UK is believed to have killed up to 15,000 people. It hit without warning and battered the country for more than a week. THE highest January temperature ever recorded was 18.3C and was set in Aber, Gwynedd, on January 10, 1971 and January 27, 1958. The same temperature was also matched on January 26, 2003 in Aboyne, Aberdeens and Inchmarlo, Kincardineshire. THE British record for the most consecutive days of rain was 89 and set on the Scottish island of Islay in 1923. But more recently, in 2016 the umbrella-wielding residents of Eglwyswrw, near Cardigan, had to endure 84 days before they finally had a full dry 24 hours. IN August 1976, Milton Abbas in Dorset and Teignmouth in Devon had record droughts – with no rain for 45 straight days. THE strongest tornado recorded in Britain was an F4 tornado, which battered Portsmouth on December 14 1810. It had a top speed of between 213mph and 240mph.