At the moment cloud is quite extensive but showing signs of thinning from the north across the central Highlands, so definitely one to watch.

NW reports -5.8 at Altnaharra (at 5AM), with -6.5 at the Cairngorm summit. On the face of it, beats the -5.6 record for the 6th but isn't there an oddity where the records are 9 to 9, so it'd go down as the minimum for the 5th rather than the 6th?

Minimum temperatures read at 0900 GMT today are credited to today, 6th May - the other elements like maximum temperature and rainfall etc are "thrown back" to yesterday.

Lowest in the PWS network was -8.5C in upper Donside. 

The new station's showing its worth, then, all we need is a decent cold spell in winter now. And thank you for the clarification regarding dates and records... I always forget which way around the records go!

It's refreshing to see some date cold records being set for once. 😊

So in the end we didn't get that date record! 

Just seen how cold records easily done in Cyprus recently with very low day and night temps plus heavy snow overnight to 19cm in Troodos and lasted 5 days on the ground.  Imagine if this set up happened here might seen some wet snow showers which I saw once in May 1986 in the evening at Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. 

Aw - still, at least TORRO must have dug around a bit to double-check that the record had potentially been beaten. I also checked their site before posting and - as of the 6th - it still listed the old -5.6 record. 

It does make me wonder how many other potential records have been missed...