Col wrote:
David Allan wrote:
At the beginning of the week, I caught one of the BBC breakfast
presenters on TV saying something about it getting really cold later
in the week and mentioned a 'national' paper saying temperatures
would drop to -15C! The link then when into the weather slot where
the forecaster qualified the statement by explaining that when they
said -15C, they probably meant the mountain tops. Now, here we are at
Thursday and the weekend temperatures for Northeast England (where I
live) are predicted to be around 7-8C and up to 10C for the start of
the new week. Did I miss something?

You did miss something

The -15C was for the end of the *month* not the end of the week.
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It looks like it will turn colder at the end of the month but it's mild
now and I've tended to notice over the years that it is not uncommon as
we move into winter. ;-)