There was little breeze on Thursday with the anemometer only registering a maximum movement of 6mph. However, the Arctic Maritime airmass meant that temperatures by day and night were even lower than on Wednesday. The thermometer only rose above zero at 10.51 and reached a peak of 2.8C at 13.22 being 5.3C below average and the coldest day since 15th January 2021.
We did, though, enjoy several hours of brilliant sunshine under totally clear skies.
The thermometer began to fall again after the peak at 13.22, dropping below zero at 16.15, -1.0C at 17.10 and -2.0C at 17.48. For much of the early evening the thermometer hovered around -2C to -3C. But late in the night the frost deepened with a minimum of -7.4C at 03.55 early on Friday. It was the coldest night since 3rd and 4th February 2019.
During the dark hours before dawn cloud began to drift across from the north that saw the thermometer begin to rise again so that at 08.00 the temperature was -1.3C. First light revealed total cloud cover and calm conditions.