Damn cold

In one of our first winters after we’d moved here we recorded a night time temperature of -16 centigrade, but then enjoyed a decade of relatively mild winters, and thought perhaps that such extremes had been consigned to meteorological history.

Last winter brought us back to reality with a start, but still didn’t challenge our “record” low.

When we woke up this morning to hear the TV weather man reporting overnight lows of -17c in Powys, and -13c in Shrewsbury, we had visions of our record being smashed….but didn’t quite make it!   As you can see from our photo, we dropped to about -15 degrees;   cold, but no cigar.

Perhaps more alarmingly, you can see that when this photo was taken at 10.30 this morning, it was still about -8c.

It’s not showing signs of warming up anytime soon!

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