The Siberian air began to bite on Monday with the thermometer eventually, for just a few minutes, struggling to reach 1.4C at 13.39, which was 6C below the 34-year February average and the coldest day since 11th December.
There was significant wind chill making it feel 4C below the thermometer reading as the wind gusted frequently to over 20mph with a maximum gust of 26mph at 16.33.
The sunshine was much reduced from the exceptional total on Sunday with just 3.47 hours.
Clear skies overnight meant a hard frost with a minimum of -5.3C at 06.33 this morning making it the coldest night since 21st January 2017. Wind chill gave a reading of -8.1C just before 1am this morning.
This morning there is broken cloud with strong sunny intervals, the thermometer having risen to -4.3C at 08.00. The temperature of the ground at a depth of 5cm was -1.7C at 08.00.
Update at 11.00: temperature -1.1C @ wind chill -7.0C
Update at 13.51: maximum day temperature of 1.1C, now falling with wind chill -3.1C. No snow yet.
Update at 15.40: freezing again with air temperature at -0.1C and wind chill at -4C. One light snow flurry.
Update at 16.40: temperature -1.4C with wind chill of -6C. Longer snow showers of very light, dry flakes. Light covering on ground with blue sky following.
Update at 17.50: temperature -2.7C and wind chill of -6.1C with heavy snow falling and settling.
Update at 19.00: temperature -4.2C, wind dropped light and approximately 2cm of snow on ground.
Update at 21.00: temperature -8.2C and still falling. Coldest night since 11th and 12th February 2012