My daughter’s boyfriend sent me this photograph that he took of the computer on his dashboard yesterday showing an outside temperature of –15 degree centigrade at Middlewich, Cheshire.
-21.2C - the lowest temperature for 15 years - was reached at Altnaharra, in Wester Ross in the northern Scottish highlands. That was just a few degrees warmer than the -22.9C currently at the South Pole.
The recorded temperature also eclipsed the previous low for the British winter so far, the -18C experienced in Benson, Oxon, overnight on Wednesday into Thursday morning.
Such temperatures are still a little way short of the coldest British temperature on record, which was -27.5C in Altnaharra in December 1995.
The coldest spot in England overnight was Woodford, Greater Manchester, which reached -16.4C. Benson was not quite as cold, at –10C, due to cloud cover and an increasing breeze.
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