In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 at 10:21:12, Col wrote :

-7.0C here in Bolton, a record low for me.
There is slush in my milk bottles, it's been a while since I've seen that!

Aaargh - I seem to be almost the only person whom the really cold
temperatures have passed by.

-3.1 on Wed was the lowest I managed.

OK, we had a bit of snow last evening, but hardly the ice-age the BBC
would have you expecting, and it didn't last long.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham