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Good morning everyone. Just poked my nose out into the garden this morning to put the bird food out on the floor, the hangers stay out all night.

It is sooooo cold but beautiful, this is the coldest we have had it for quite a few years. We have an outdoor thermometer with a reader in the kitchen.

What has everyone else had, they have just shown it as minus 20.4 in Braemar!!

Unfortunately I have indoor jobs to today so might not get out till later on today.

Morning

It was -5C when I left for work this morning, but the garden thermometer showed -9C overnight. It was colder last weekend, so things are getting better.

Still no snow

Our weather station was showing -3 when I went to work at 7-15am....but I'm told that it was down to -6.4 by 8-30am.

Currently (3pm) reading -4.3

Clive.

The over night temperature in the top greenhouse was -11C and I've not managed to open the door to get into the bottom greenhouse yet its still frozen.

It seems a very good year for icicles. There are some huge ones on the house gutter. Hope it doesn't come down!

Icicles on the Squash Court at work yesterday....they are a bit bigger today....

Clive.

-11C at 6am, -8C at 10am, warmed up to -3C this pm.
Snowing now: we only have 12mm which I blame on global warming as SUssex apparently has 20mm...

-10 degrees in the greenhouse, -11 outside here. Walked into town on really crunchy, squeaky snow in brilliant sunshine and got as warm as toast - brilliant.

Wonder how the many bulbs (crocus, iris, hyancinths, tulips), overplanted with violas, pansies and wallflowers, are surviving in the frozen pots. I'll just have to hope for the best.

My Winter low is 11.2F which is 20.8 degrees of frost. This is the lowest temperature here in the last 30 plus years.
JB.

It never fails to amaze me what Mother Nature can do. The gritters have spent days trying to keep the roads clear here, at huge costs, then the temperature rises by a few degrees and it has all gone in 24 hours.

oldherbaceous wrote:It never fails to amaze me what Mother Nature can do. The gritters have spent days trying to keep the roads clear here, at huge costs, then the temperature rises by a few degrees and it has all gone in 24 hours.

And she's forecast to bring it all back this week

Mother Nature giveth, then she taketh away.

We'll always get some sort of weather.

Hi OH, Mother nature always gives us something, not always when the garden wants it, but generally she manages to provide for us over millennia.
currently though she is suffering an infestation of one particular species, she is scratching about a bit! The lowest here was -7, the recent rains cleared the snow pretty effectively. The drains struggled to cope in lower areas, our local supermatket car park was awash for a while.

It's not all gone from around here..... Snow is down from 5" to 2" with the very slight positive temperatures of yesterday..and the rain yesterday evening.

This morning it is frozen hard...and any clear surfaces are very ice glazed.

Side roads remain packed snow to ice...so will be extra awful this morning...

Lovely to see the sunshine this morning after the murky fog of yesterday.

Clive.

The snow is still over the welly tops in half of my garden, 15 inches or so, and the bits I've cleared are sheet ice. It wasn't quite as cold last night - only -7.5C in the top greenhouse.

A very hard frost out there this morning, the roads are lethal with black ice.