Kinbrace
| Kinbrace | |
| Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Bhràist | |
  Kinbrace Kinbrace shown within the Sutherland area | |
| OS grid reference | NC862317 |
|---|---|
| Council area | Highland |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Kinbrace |
| Postcode district | KW11 |
| Police | Scottish |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
Kinbrace is a small village in Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies at the junction of the A897 and B871[1] and is 17 miles (27 km) from Helmsdale by road.[2] The village has a station on the Far North Line (also named Kinbrace), and a primary school.[3] Few people live in the village with the population standing at 828,[4][5] although this statistic covers a much larger area than Kinbrace itself.
Railway station
Climate
As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Kinbrace experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. It is nonetheless one of the more frost prone locations in the country, with notable temperatures including a minimum of −21.7 °C (−7.1 °F) during March 2001,[6] and a daytime maximum of −10.5 °C (13.1 °F) during November 1985,[7] when a temperature inversion persisted throughout the day.
| Climate data for Kinbrace, 103m asl, 1971-2000 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) |
5.8 (42.4) |
7.7 (45.9) |
10.1 (50.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.9 (64.2) |
17.4 (63.3) |
14.6 (58.3) |
11.4 (52.5) |
7.6 (45.7) |
5.7 (42.3) |
11.1 (52) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −1.3 (29.7) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
0.1 (32.2) |
1.4 (34.5) |
3.6 (38.5) |
6.2 (43.2) |
8.7 (47.7) |
8.3 (46.9) |
6.3 (43.3) |
4.0 (39.2) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
3.1 (37.6) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 111.6 (4.394) |
75.5 (2.972) |
88.2 (3.472) |
61.1 (2.406) |
51.6 (2.031) |
56.8 (2.236) |
63.9 (2.516) |
67.6 (2.661) |
91.5 (3.602) |
103.8 (4.087) |
117.7 (4.634) |
104.5 (4.114) |
993.8 (39.126) |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 36.9 | 67.5 | 98.9 | 129.0 | 179.5 | 147.0 | 137.6 | 131.1 | 109.5 | 83.1 | 45.0 | 27.3 | 1,192.4 |
| Source: Met Office[8] | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ OpenStreetMap and other cartographs
- ↑ Ordnance Survey, 1:250,000 scale raster (2010)
- ↑ Helmsdale Community website's page on Kinbrace
- ↑ Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, data zone S01003968
- ↑ Population estimate is based on the 2001 Census
- ↑ "2001 temperature". TORRO.
- ↑ "1985 Temperature". MetOffice.
- ↑ "Kinbrace 1971-2000 averages". Met Office. Retrieved 01 Nov 2011.