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A minimum overnight here of -9.2°C.
And a maximum today of -2.4°C. Currently sliding down again at -3.5°C.
This is the lowest maximum recorded at my site since the very cold spell at
the end of 1995 and only the 7th ice day here of the millennium.
Lowest minimum since March 2001 also.

Currently (1634z) MS 8.7C and dropping quite steadily now. Must put a
sweater on next time I go out!

Phil

From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL [NH 616916]
(40 miles north of Inverness)