The snowless beast of 2018 lowest was -3.7c, the snow event of Feb 21 -3.6c.
0.8mm from the earlier light rain.
Originally Posted by: Gusty
Damn, you really missed out there. -14.8 was the low here, 11 degrees colder! That was the coldest spell since 1987 (when it reached -16).
I still remember how agog I was at seeing the MetO automated having -12 when I got up that morning, it was a last-minute switch from the -3 or -4 forecast the previous evening. It was, if anything, too conservative! Brogdale recorded -14 and was the coldest spot in the UK that winter.
(Even more fun was driving to work that day - I didn't see any tarmac whatsoever on the 12 mile journey. The school was closed, so I did a 3 point turn in the snow outside the school, drove back via Tesco, where the workers looked at me as if I was an alien, then I went back home, only to find the news was then full of stuff about the snow. The car didn't get above -13 all the way in, with -17 over the higher parts of Sheppey on the way back from Tesco. It said -14 back at home, and that's what the temperature was. I even tried the "boil water in a mug" trick, half of it froze into little crystals, the rest plopped into the deep snow. Magical, utterly magical.)
Back to the here and now, and grey and murky sums it up. 4.7, dew 3.8, which is the high so far.
EDIT:
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2018-02-28/2018-02-28/daily That's the record from my station. I doubt I'll see such cold conditions again in my lifetime.
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03 December 2023 09:52:15
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