Many thanks to Graham J, who sent us the following email:
Last night was the coldest recorded by our live village weather station which has been recording data since the beginning of 2007. At 6:30am this morning the temperature had dropped to a staggering low of 12.9 degrees below zero Celsius. This is over 4 degrees cooler than the previous low of -8.8 degrees C recorded on 7th January earlier this year. Traveling back from Ashbourne at around midnight last night, our car external temperature gauge fell to -15 degrees C at Bradbourne Mill (a consistent cold trap area, typically 3-5 degrees colder than Parwich on a still night). One wonders what the low at 6:30am would have been there?
Graham and Amanda kindly make the readings from their weather station available to all. Click here to see the reading right now.
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A visitor to our house at 7.30am this morning registered a temperature of -18 degrees on her car’s external temperature gauge. The water that I put onto the horses early morning feed to dampen it froze almost immediately. I don’t ever remember this happening before.