What are the highest and lowest temperatures ever recorded in Kent?
On the 10th August 2003, certainly the hottest day in reliable weather history in the UK, Faversham (Brogdale) recorded 38.5 ºC / 101.3 ºF and Gravesend touched 38.1 ºC / 100.6 ºF. However, it should be noted that these measurements are questioned by some due to the sites being more sheltered than recommended in the strictest Met Office guidelines. The UK record accepted without question is 38.1 ºC at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens). Greenwich Observatory (still regarded as in Kent by many and definitively so pre 1974 boundaries!) recorded 37.5 ºC. In the legendary winter of 1947, Kent’s coldest ever official temperature was recorded at Elmstone (east of Canterbury): -6 ºF /-21.3 ºC on 29/30th January.
