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To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the sites of the 76 weather stations. [HL1840]
The Met Office has considerably more than 76 weather stations. However the 76 Met Office weather stations that are used for the cold weather payments (CWP) scheme for Great Britain are listed in the table below.
Weather Station County or Unitary Administration Latitude (note 1) Longitude (note 2) Cassley Highland 58.169 -4.729 Lerwick Shetland 60.113 -1.183 Kirkwall Orkney 58.953 -2.899 Stornoway Airport Western Isles 58.217 -6.317 Loch Glascarnoch Highland 57.717 -4.8 Aultbea Highland 57.867 -5.6 Lusa Highland 57.250 -5.8 Tulloch Bridge Highland 56.867 -4.7 Aviemore Highland 57.2 -3.833 Kinloss Moray 57.650 -3.567 Wick Airport Highland 58.450 -3.083 Braemar Aberdeenshire 57.0 -3.4 Dyce Airport Aberdeen 57.2 -2.2 Tiree Argyll and Bute 56.5 -6.883 Machrihanish Argyll and Bute 55.433 -5.7 West Freugh Dumfries and Galloway 54.850 -4.950 Bishopton Renfrewshire 55.900 -4.533 Salsburgh North Lanarkshire 55.867 -3.867 Dundrennan Dumfries and Galloway 54.803 -4.008 Charterhall Scottish Borders 55.709 -2.383 Eskdalemuir Dumfries and Galloway 55.317 -3.2 Edinburgh Gogarbank Edinburgh 55.933 -3.350 Leuchars Fife 56.383 -2.867 Walney Island Cumbria 54.117 -3.250 Carlisle Cumbria 54.933 -2.967 Redesdale Northumberland 55.28 -2.28 Boulmer Northumberland 55.417 -1.6 Albemarle Northumberland 55.02 -1.88 Loftus Redcar and Cleveland 54.563 -0.863 Linton on Ouse North Yorkshire 54.050 -1.250 Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire 53.87 -0.44 Valley Anglesey 53.250 -4.533 Rhyl Denbighshire 53.250 -3.500 Crosby Merseyside 53.500 -3.067 Shap Cumbria 54.5 -2.683 Woodford Greater Manchester 53.20 -2.09 Bingley West Yorkshire 53.817 -1.867 Nottingham Nottinghamshire 53.000 -1.250 Waddington Lincolnshire 53.167 -0.517 Lake Vyrnwy Powys 52.750 -3.467 Shawbury Shropshire 52.800 -2.667 Wittering Peterborough 52.617 -0.483 Marham Norfolk 52.650 -0.567 Norwich Airport Norfolk 52.68 1.28 Aberporth Ceredigion 52.133 -4.567 Trawsgoed Ceredigion 52.333 -3.95 Sennybridge Powys 52.067 -3.617 Hereford Herefordshire 52.08 -2.80 Coleshill Warwickshire 52.483 -1.683 Bedford Bedfordshire 52.217 -0.483 Wattisham Suffolk 52.117 0.967 Pembrey Sands Carmarthenshire 51.717 -4.367 Filton South Gloucestershire 51.517 -2.583 Brize Norton Oxfordshire 51.750 -1.583 Andrewsfield Essex 51.883 0.450 Chivenor Devon 51.083 -4.150 Liscombe Somerset 51.083 -3.600 St Athan Vale of Glamorgan 51.400 -3.433 Lyneham Wiltshire 51.500 -1.983 Boscombe Down Wiltshire 51.167 -1.750 South Farnborough Hampshire 51.279 -0.772 High Wycombe Buckinghamshire 51.683 -0.8 Heathrow Greater London 51.483 -0,450 Charlwood West Sussex 51.150 -0.233 Manston Kent 51.350 1.350 Scilly St Marys Isles of Scilly 49.917 -6.300 Culdrose Cornwall 50.083 -5.250 Cardinham Cornwall 50.500 -4.667 Plymouth Plymouth 50.350 -4.117 Dunkeswell Devon 50.867 -3.233 Yeovilton Somerset 51.0 -2.633 Isle of Portland Dorset 50.517 -2.450 Hurn (Bournemouth) Dorset 50.783 -1.850 St Catherine's Point Isle of Wight 50.583 -1.3 Thorney Island West Sussex 50.817 -0.917 Herstmonceux East Sussex 50.900 0.317
Note 1: Latitudes are degrees north.
Note 2: Longitudes are degrees east (+) or degrees west (-).