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Oh... I think the rain bucket is starting to thaw out....

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Been sleeting on and off here all day, didn't think it was actually doing much - but just been out with the dog and it's really icy!

0.8C, DP: -0.5C

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@CatchMyDrift rime? Apologies if I should know this, but what is rime?

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Ooo I'm under the Met Office warning....

"above 200m"

Sigh.....

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So, we came above freezing around 4am, and we hovered around the 1C mark. Around 10am we started to climb, and we are currently sitting at 3.5C, but we have reached 3.7C so far today. From a practical standpoint, I guess I am quite happy that we are finally far enough above freezing that it might make a difference, but the winter loving part of me, is not pleased.

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Dropped down to -4.2C earlier this evening, but now up to -3.1C.

Don't know if it will repeat last night and hover up and down and then plummet, or if it is going to keep rising.

Netweather has us being up above freezing by 3am, but it had something similar yesterday too - which was terribly wrong.

We shall see.

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Well, after my last post about the temperature dropping fast, it started climbing. And spent a chunk of the night before midnight, going down to -4.8 and back up to -3.9 and down again.

In the early hours, it started dropping again and reached a low of -8.3C about half an hour after sunrise.

Our high today is 1C !! and now it's hovering between 0.8 and 0.9

There is a lot of ice (and frozen snow) in our back garden, no signs of a thaw yet.

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5 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

Same here. A high of 0.4C! I really hoped we'd scrape an ice day but nope. Nudged above freezing between 13:30 and 15:30. Not had an ice day here since BFTE in 2018. The wait continues.... 

It's quite fascinating actually knowing when you went above freezing and for how long - we hit 0C at 12:29 and then climbed to 0.3 and dropped back to 0 at 14:20

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A few hours later, and we are now sitting at -4.2C, dropped 1C in the last hour. Slightly concerned about the potential for damage from freezing pipes tonight, if it keeps dropping at this speed!

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Well, the house boiler has finally switched off. It's been on since 3:30am, trying to keep the house at a comfortable temperature.

-1.5C here now. 0.9C drop in the last hour.

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4 minutes ago, 101_North said:

0.3c here too. Can't buy a proper ice day this year

I think we used our 100 year quota of those in 2010 here.....

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No Snow here in Greenlaw overnight. Instead it dropped to -6.6C

It's currently just made it above 0 (0.3C).

Snow... across the South of England? Snow in London? Jesus! The entire Country grinds to a halt (by law, I'm sure) if London gets snow...

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Guess we are having a cold night then....

Already -0.8C and it's not even 6pm yet.

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Ooo another Met Office Warning. No good for me, but they are suggesting many in the West are going to see *some* snow, even at low levels. 

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Well, here it is. The Timelapse for 21st January.

Enjoy.

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I'm not concerned yet anyway. In my experience both here in the Borders and in County Durham where I used to live - snow was much more common at the end of February / beginning of March. Winter isn't over for me.

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So although it is 1.9C out there, it feels BLOODY FREEZING! I've been out twice with the dog, and my hands get sore after just a few minutes!

Station says it feels like -1.4C, it feels a lot colder than that to me.....

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Eventually had to go to sleep, so these are the automated webcam pictures:

5am: 

7am: 

8:22am:

12pm:

Now (2:20pm):

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Temperature now fluctuating between 0.1C and 0.2C, spending more time at 0.2C though. That's probably not a great sign....

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OK, so this is where we are at at 2am. Unless we are getting some super intense heavy snow, I don't see this accumulating. It looks reasonably heavy falling out of the sky, but it's wet mushy stuff and if you spend any time at all looking at the picture, you can see that it's not deep, it's slightly more than a dusting (can you get wet dustings?)

 

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It's starting to lay, but as you can see it's clearly rather wet stuff.

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Reduced to having to get excited that there is clearly sleet on the car windscreen and also the street rubbish bin....

0.3C / -0.6C

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0.8C / 0.1C

Still no snow - or sleet....

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5 minutes ago, Gadje said:

or buy a 55m set of aluminium step ladders

If you get a 55m metal pole, and ground it - you could try and trigger thundersnow 

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This will be me, in that gap between the green bands......