Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equalling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982
ltnaharra has a Met Office weather station. The village's northerly latitude and inland location mean that in winter it often features in the daily weather extremes for the United Kingdom.
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It is unusual in that the coldest month of the year is normally December. On 30 December 1995, the UK's lowest recorded temperature −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) was measured there