Against my expectations, we did in fact beat the -6.1°C from a few days
ago, bottoming out at -6.4°C in the early hours. It's good going to get
beneath -5°C here; at the height (depth?) of the cold last winter I
recorded -7.4°C around 21.00 on 6 Jan; clouds rolled in after that.

Today's maximum was a positively tropical 1.6°C, a full degree warmer
than yesterday's. The sun has been out for most of the day, and although
the canals are mostly still frozen across other than at locks etc, the
ice is considerably thinner than in the January spell. Plenty of hoar
frost on the trees this morning, though, which looked lovely in the early
sunshine.

Currently clear and still above freezing: 0.3°C right now.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.