Hi guys,

Just wanted to thank you all for your contributions. I think that I am going
to try and take each circumstance when I have issues such as this
individually and consider what's been going on. For instance I have decided
to record the minus 3 deg only once (for the 15th) and allow last night's
minimum of minus 0.5 deg to stand as the minimum for the 24-hour period 0800
(16th) - 0800 (17th). I know that this is not accurate to the convention,
but for my own personal records, I feel that I would like to know that the
temperature didn't fall to minus 3 deg two nights in a row (as Keiron
pointed out). Thanks for your comments too, Colin and Tudor - very helpful
and informative indeed! Here's to some interesting statistics in the coming
week!

Kind regards,

Jeremy

"Jeremy Handscomb" wrote in message
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Hi all,

This morning my max/min thermometer showed that last night the temperature
dropped to minus 3 - it was minus 3 at the time I do my observations too
(8am), so when I came home from work I realized that because tonight is
likely to be less cold, I will get a 'false' reading from my max/min
thermometer. It will say the coldest temp in the last 24 hours was minus
3, but what I really want to know is tonights minimum - I have reset the
thermometer so I can know, but was wondering what the standard convention
is if the minimum (or indeed maximum) temperature coincides with the time
of observations?

Regards,

Jeremy

(Hope this post doesn't get swallowed up by all the excitement!)