Wundermap (which shows personal and official stations) is fascinating. Bearing in mind we have a gentle northerly flow over the region today, you would expect my end of the county to be a bit warmer... but it seems to be reversed, with the Channel coasts having their own microclimate warmth today. There are clear skies here, but some cloud to the south - but even when it was briefly overcast here, it didn't go above 1.0.

That said, though it's a nominally northerly flow there's barely a puff of wind out there. And with clear skies and thick frost persisting on the lawn - all of the lawn, even the sunny bits - it's ideally primed for a very cold night again.

Here's a snap of the Wundermap just now.

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/kent.jpg 

UPDATE: It's now comfortably below freezing, -0.4, dew -1.2. The (melted) frost on the car from earlier has re-frozen and the lawn is still as white as it's been all day. The moon's shining down, the sun's still shining on the tree-tops... all very pleasant. A lovely winter's day.

1.6c low -4.3c

1020.4mb rising

The result of all of this is that all of the frost in shaded areas has persisted all day and it's just a shame that winter will be effectively over by the beginning of next week according to the latest model output.

My two digital thermometers reached -1.0 and -1.5 C as maximums

They are both down to -2.5 now at 15:50

Down to -0.5c now. 

Consequently the temperature stalled and maxed out at -0.1C. During the afternoon the cloud band moved south giving us a sunny end to the day with light winds and temperatures starting to tumble.

Currently it is -1.6C and the garden is a lovely frosty white. 

Another important thing to take note of though as that the temperatures at the official stations such as Gogarbank are always recorded at a level which is 2m above the ground (someone might correct me as regards to the exact level but I do know that the thermometers need to be kept in the shade and at a certain level above the ground which is why the official stations use Stevenson's screens for that purpose).

If you have your own weather station and your thermometers are at a level which is lower than that, they will be more than likely to record lower readings under the current weather pattern as a result, thus making it more likely that they will continue to record sub-zero temperatures throughout today.

Temperature slowly climbed through the day with a moderate SE breeze and a mixture of light rain and drizzle.

Currently it’s 7.2c. This is what the next two weeks are looking like add a few degrees… 

My thermometers are at 4ft above the ground. One above soil, the other above gravel. Away from the house and in an area of no sun. My garden slopes down to the railway which is in the bottom of the frost hollow below Blackford Hill. Hence the low temperature

It's now -3.5 C here at 16:50

However, a total of 5.2 hours of sunshine was recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank which makes today our sunniest day of the winter so far but this just resulted in today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank getting up to 2.7°C.

The skies have now cleared once again with the temperature dropping back down below freezing and there is still some frost around but it's nowhere near as cold as it was at this time yesterday.

The official minimum temperature is still the same -6.8°C which was recorded for yesterday but that is only because this was a temperature which occurred at exactly bang on 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning when we went from one official observation day to the next, resulting in the same minimum temperature being recorded for both days.

Currently around -2°C here in Edinburgh.

https://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/west-webcam/ 

“Only” -5.8°C here in this part of the city currently but it was down to -9.7°C at the airport a while ago.

Probably the last really severe frost here for now

Month mean now below zero.