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I know 125mph was recorded on Ben Nevis on 27th January 2002, but higher wind speeds must have been recorded.

In reply to Stormmagnet:

I seem to remember that the highest was recorded on Cairngorm, I can't remember the speed, but I read it in Martin Moran's book, 'Scottish Winter Mountains'.

In reply to Stormmagnet:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/location/scotland/index.html

Highest gust recorded at a low-level site: 123 knots (142 mph) at Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire) on 13 February 1989.

Highest gust recorded at a high-level site: 150 knots (173 mph) at Cairngorm Automatic Weather Station (on the border of Highland and Moray at an altitude of 1245 m AMSL) on 20 March 1986.

In reply to Stormmagnet:

Think it may have been 173mph on Cairngorm, could be talking shite though.

Google it!

In reply to DougG:

F*ck me I was right, how do useless bits of info like that sometimes stick in your head?!!

In reply to Simon22:

God Knows, I'm impressed.

Bet you don't know what day it is though.

In reply to DougG:

I don't, I also can't remember my name............

In reply to Stormmagnet:

For those of an inquisitive nature/bored the highest ever recorded windspeed over land was recorded at Mount Washington at 231 mph.

In reply to Stormmagnet:
The lowest temperatures recorded are interesting as well. On the top of Cairngorm the lowest recorded was (bit of a guess from memory) -16 or -18 degrees c
While in Braemar 9i think) the lowest temperature recorded is much lower, -25ish or something of that order.
This is a bit counter intuative as Braemar is at a much lower altitude that the summit of Cairngorm (and you could be forgiven for thinking that higher=colder)
It is becuase of convection currents in the valley that Braemar sits in (cold air sinking). At least I think that was the reason!

In reply to joe j:


True.

I think the temp was -27.2C, a record it shares with another place in Scotland and my grans front room circa Jan 1986!

In reply to Stormmagnet:

In the "hurricane" of 1987 115 mph was recorded at Shoreham and 99 mph at Gatwick.

In reply to Simon22:


Altnaharra, in Dec 1995.

And yes, it's due to cold air sinking in intense anticyclonic conditions.

In reply to Simon22:


I remember delivering milk that year (pr maybe 81/2?). The bottles were frozen solid!! And collecting the money at night was torture.

In reply to Simon22:


Autism?

Andy

In reply to Stormmagnet:

173 mph was the maximum wind speed recorded on Cairngorm summit on 20 march 1986.

The actual windspeed may have been higher as the weather station broke at 173 mph (or so I am led to believe!)

I and a group of friends were actually crawling off Ben Nevis that day, using our ice axes to hold ourselves down. One of us was blown about 30 yards through the air. He weighed about 14 stone and had a 60l sack full of a weeks worth of kit and ropes etc.

Driving down the A74 (as it was then) we counted over 20 lorries blown over, off the road!

In reply to Sir Edmund:

I am led to believe that the reason it broke was it was hit by a hammer.

In reply to Sir Edmund:

I experienced a similar situation in 2002, the recorded windspeed was 125mph.

We had to make a major diversion as a two lorries had gone over in Glen Coe, blocking the road. Like you we saw well over 20 lorries on their sides before we reached the border with England.

In reply to Simon22:

When you are struggling to put a tent up on Ben McDui in mid winter, facts like this become ever so important. Lowest temperature recorded was -27 in Braemar just up the road. This is another fact I remember well.

Brrrrrr

GFex.