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| Eskdalemuir | |
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 The former primary school, now "The Hub". | |
  Eskdalemuir Location withinDumfries and Galloway | |
| Population | 265 (2001) |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Langholm |
| Postcode district | DG13 |
| Dialling code | 013873 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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| 55°16′08″N3°10′37″W / 55.269°N 3.177°W /55.269; -3.177 | |
Eskdalemuir is acivil parish and small village inDumfries and Galloway, Scotland, with a population of 265.[1] It is around 10 miles (16 km) north-west ofLangholm and 10 miles (16 km) north-east ofLockerbie.
The area comprises high wet moorlands, chiefly used for sheep grazing andforestry plantation (Eskdalemuir Forest). The main settlement is near theWhite Esk river.
Eskdalemuir is probably best known for theEskdalemuir Observatory and for theSamye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery.
In the community is the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, which incorporates a former hunting lodge called Johnstone House. Listed as atourist attraction by VisitScotland.
Eskdalemuir is rich in archaeological remains, including two neolithic stone circles, theLoupin Stanes and theGirdle Stanes, and bank barrow, Castle O'er, a possible ritual centre for theSelgovae, Raeburnfoot, a Roman fort and later dark age fortifications and settlements.
Due to the establishment of the Eskdalemuir Observatory here in 1908, Eskdalemuir has one of the longest climatological records in the UK, with data stretching back over 100 years. The data shows Eskdalemuir to be a very wet, often cloudy place.
Eskdalemuir holds theUK weather record for the highest rainfall in a 30-minute period: 80 mm (3.1 in), recorded on 26 June 1953.[2] It also holds the record for the dullest summer month; 43.9 hours were recorded in August 1912, and subsequently just 41 hours were measured in August 2008. However, these values are not directly comparable due to a change in recording technique – the earlier having been made using aCampbell–Stokes recorder and the later using an electronic recorder.[3]
Other recent low sunshine records for the site include 30 hours during October 2011,[4] 46 hours during September 2008,[5] and 69 hours during July 2010.[6]Its dullest month was December 2015 with only 9.2 hours recorded. Eskdalemuir experienced its wettest year on record in 2011.[7]
In spite of it being located inland, the dull and wet nature of the climate due to the elevation leads to chilly summers that are colder than more northerly locations such asGlasgow andEdinburgh. The inland nature of the climate is more manifest during winter months with frosts being common, and the average lows between December and February are below the freezing point.[8]
The highest recorded temperature was 32.3 °C (90.1 °F) in July 2022 and the lowest is −19.0 °C (−2.2 °F) in January 2010.
| Climate data for Eskdalemuir (242 m AMSL; averages 1991–2020, extremes 1911–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) | 14.0 (57.2) | 20.1 (68.2) | 23.8 (74.8) | 26.8 (80.2) | 29.9 (85.8) | 32.3 (90.1) | 28.7 (83.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 22.2 (72.0) | 16.3 (61.3) | 13.4 (56.1) | 32.3 (90.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) | 5.9 (42.6) | 7.8 (46.0) | 10.8 (51.4) | 14.1 (57.4) | 16.4 (61.5) | 18.2 (64.8) | 17.7 (63.9) | 15.3 (59.5) | 11.7 (53.1) | 8.0 (46.4) | 5.5 (41.9) | 11.4 (52.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.5 (36.5) | 2.9 (37.2) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.6 (43.9) | 9.5 (49.1) | 12.1 (53.8) | 13.9 (57.0) | 13.6 (56.5) | 11.4 (52.5) | 8.2 (46.8) | 5.0 (41.0) | 2.7 (36.9) | 7.7 (45.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.1 (31.8) | −0.2 (31.6) | 0.8 (33.4) | 2.4 (36.3) | 4.8 (40.6) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.6 (49.3) | 9.5 (49.1) | 7.5 (45.5) | 4.7 (40.5) | 2.0 (35.6) | −0.2 (31.6) | 4.1 (39.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −16.6 (2.1) | −14.7 (5.5) | −15.4 (4.3) | −7.1 (19.2) | −2.5 (27.5) | −1.7 (28.9) | −2.2 (28.0) | −5.0 (23.0) | −7.8 (18.0) | −14.3 (6.3) | −18.5 (−1.3) | −19.0 (−2.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 208.3 (8.20) | 170.0 (6.69) | 146.7 (5.78) | 102.1 (4.02) | 102.9 (4.05) | 111.2 (4.38) | 130.0 (5.12) | 143.9 (5.67) | 132.1 (5.20) | 184.5 (7.26) | 189.9 (7.48) | 205.7 (8.10) | 1,827.2 (71.94) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 19.1 | 16.3 | 15.7 | 13.7 | 13.1 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 15.1 | 18.0 | 18.6 | 18.5 | 193.5 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 37.7 | 60.6 | 87.1 | 133.3 | 168.6 | 138.5 | 137.7 | 128.1 | 101.1 | 72.6 | 49.0 | 37.4 | 1,151.6 |
| Source 1:Met Office[9] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2:WeatherJournal[10] | |||||||||||||
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