1906 British Isles heatwave

1906 British Isles heat wave

Areas	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Start date	Late August 1906
End date	September 1906
Peak temp.	35.6 °C (96.1 °F), recordedat Bawtry, South Yorkshire [1] [ failed verification ]

The 1906 British Isles heatwave occurred across the British Isles in August and September 1906. The heat wave had a comparable intensity to the 1990 heat wave. ^[2] From 31 August to 3 September, the temperature in the UK exceeded 32 °C (90 °F) consecutively over much of the UK. In September, Central England and Birmingham recorded a maximum temperature of 31.5 °C (88.7 °F), ^{[3] [4]} while Oxford recorded a maximum temperature of 33.1 °C (91.6 °F). ^[3]

2 September was the hottest day of the month, as temperatures reached 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) in Bawtry; this remains the hottest September temperature of any day in the UK and the eighth-hottest day overall in the 20th century. ^[5]

Scotland had temperatures reaching 32.2 °C (90.0 °F) at Gordon Castle, Moray, while Northern Ireland had temperatures reaching 27.8 °C (82.0 °F) in Armagh, County Armagh, both recorded on 1 September 1906. ^{[1] [ failed verification ]}

September records

Location	September 1906 maximum temperature [6]	Date	Next record	Date of next record
Armagh, County Armagh [ citation needed ]	27.8 °C (82.0 °F)
Bawtry, South Yorkshire	35.6 °C (96.1 °F)	2 Sept.
Birmingham, West Midlands [ citation needed ]	31.5 °C (88.7 °F)
Collyweston, Northamptonshire	35.0 °C (95.0 °F)	1 Sept.
Gordon Castle, Moray [ citation needed ]	32.2 °C (90.0 °F)
New Malden, Greater London	35.0 °C (95.0 °F)	1 Sept.
Old Southgate, Greater London	34.8 °C (94.6 °F)	2 Sept.
Oxford, Oxfordshire [ citation needed ]	33.1 °C (91.6 °F)		33.4 °C (92.1 °F)	September 1911
Westley, Suffolk	34.2 °C (93.6 °F)	3 Sept.
Wryde, Cambridgeshire	34.7 °C (94.5 °F)	18 Aug.

See also

• Drought in the United Kingdom

References

1. "Climate Extremes". Met Office . Retrieved 10 April 2018.^{[ failed verification ]}
2. "Record-breaking Heatwave in England and Wales". Greenpeace. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
3. "CET September Time Series Plots". Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute . Retrieved 21 August 2016.
4. "Birmingham September Time Series Plots". Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute . Retrieved 21 August 2016.
5. Suri, Dan (16 February 2001). "Warm spells in September". Archived from the original on 6 June 2002. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
6. Webb, Jonathan D. C.; Meaden, G. Terence (September 2000). "Daily temperature extremes for Britain". Weather. 55 (9): 298–315. doi: 10.1002/j.1477-8696.2000.tb04084.x .