"Dave Hill" wrote in message
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On Nov 29, 10:04 am, Dave Poole wrote:
On Nov 29, 9:47 am, Donwill wrote:

The lowest temp recorded overnight was -6degC @ 06.30 this morning.
It is now a balmy -3 deg C ;-)

Not at all nice! Loughborough recorded -9.9C the night before last
and it was -8.5C in one garden there at 8.30am yesterday. That
reminds me of the serious winter cold of '81/'82, which was
devastating in the Midlands if not anywhere else. I moved south
shortly after that and can't imagine how it would be to have to live
through it again. Due to cloud cover here last night, it dipped to
2.1C at around 2am, rose to 3C by 5am, dropped back down to 2.2C
between 7 and 9am before rising to the current 3C (10am). That's bad
enough for me and I'd hate to have to endure worse. I just hope it
warms up before Christmas, when I do my annual northbound trek to
visit my family.

Here in the Swansea area it went down to 28f last night, it had gone
below freezing by 4pm and when I checked a few minutes ago, that was
at around 10am it had just got above freezing so I am off out to try
to lift some of the tree dahlias, just hope the frost hasn't got to
far into the ground yet.
The problem is that they have large tuber system, and it is as much as
I can do tro get 1 tuber into a carrier bag.
The forecast is for the frost to carry on all week.
Ugh!!!
David

Maybe I should move south. I am in supposedly mild North Wales, only a few
miles inland from the coast. My thermometer says it was -12C overnight and
it is -6 in the shade now. The sun is out and it looks pretty but the ice
will have to evaporate not thaw!