Thanks Mr Data. I remember that winter very well for various reasons, and the freezing rain event was quite exceptional in our area, as we were all expecting snow and we got that instead! My car was incased in solid ice , up untill then Ive never seen anything like it and the pavements and roads were lethal, my dad was driving a bedford rascal at the time , and that turned over on the icy :lol: roads! luckily he was ok! Ok, it was not the coldest longest winter on record, but when temperatures get as low as minus 27.2c in the UK it really is something, and I think that was the coldest temperature recorded since the infamous winter of 1890. It was a year of extremes, because that year it was a hot summer as well! :lol: