[The Strange Parts Of The Cold Spell]

Only had frost here when the skies were clear, unsuprisingly. Even when its clouded up overnight with temperatures rising to say, -1C, the frost has gone pretty sharpish. In the night even. However, now all standing water is frozen and the glooply semi-frozen muddy paths where I walk the dogs finally gone hard. But its not a picture postcard scene, because the frost has been intermittant. The real cold spell, in terms of freezing stuff properly didn't set in here until Friday night.

We have had no freezing fog whatsoever. What remains a slight curiousity is that, the sun can be beaming down and it remains well below freezing into midday, yet if cloud moves in after a frost, say 5-6am, the frost disappears, and it gets milder despite the fact its sunny elsewhere? I thought the cloud might prevent too much of a warm up on a chilly start after frosting but vice versa seems to be the case of late.

I was just saying that to my partner about this an hour ago, We are also in Rushden and we have noticed that the

Frosts, when we have had them, are gone, but the bucket of water in the garden has remained frozen for days now, and having

taken a *brief* trip into the town center, I was bloody frozen out there, in the shed it has just reached 0.0oC and is now starting

to fall again.

[Do you think this the last snow of winter for most of us?]

the best snow "events" here have always been late Jan and through Feb

[Do you think this the last snow of winter for most of us?]

nah, plenty of time yet to see snow.