United Kingdom weather records
The United Kingdom weather records note the most extreme weather ever recorded in the United Kingdom, such as the most and fewest hours of sunshine and highest wind speed.
Records
As of 1 June 2020, the records as recorded since by the Met Office were:Highest temperature
Lowest temperature
Rainfall
| Duration | Level | Location | Date |
| Highest 5-min total | approx. | Preston, Lancashire | 10 August 1893 |
| Highest 30-min total | Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway | 26 June 1953 | |
| Highest 60-min total | Maidenhead, Berkshire | 12 July 1901 | |
| Highest 90-min total | Dunsop Valley, Lancashire | 8 August 1967 | |
| Highest 120-min total | Walshaw Dean Lodge, West Yorkshire | 19 May 1989 | |
| Highest 155-min total | Hampstead, London | 14 August 1975 | |
| Highest 180-min total | Horncastle, Lincolnshire | 7 October 1960 | |
| Highest 24-hour total | Honister Pass, Cumbria | 5 December 2015 | |
| Highest 24-hour total | Martinstown, Dorset | 18 July 1955 | |
| Highest 48-hour total | Thirlmere, Cumbria | 4 to 5 December 2015 | |
| Highest 72-hour total | Seathwaite, Cumbria | 17 to 19 November 2009 | |
| Highest 96-hour total | Seathwaite, Cumbria | 16 to 19 November 2009 | |
| Highest monthly total | Crib Goch, Snowdon | 1 to 31 December 2015 |
Sunshine
Wind speed
holds the unofficial British record for wind speed. A gust of was reported on 1 January 1992. An earlier gust in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph, both at RAF Saxa Vord. However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have been achieved as during both storms the measuring equipment was destroyed by the extreme weather.A wind gust of was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008.