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.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:07:59 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

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

Still +0.1°C, with a minimum of -0.3°C. Despite the wind, that surprises
me a little given clear skies over (admittedly very thin) snow cover.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:53:32 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:07:59 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

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

Still +0.1°C, with a minimum of -0.3°C. Despite the wind, that surprises
me a little given clear skies over (admittedly very thin) snow cover.

Now -2.1°C, which is a bit more like it. I'll say once again that I don't
expect a sub-minus-5 night tonight, though the last two occasions on
which I've said that I've been wrong!

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.