After early morning cloud the sun broke through and gave us 5.8 hours of strong sunshine that melted snow but not that in the shade. The wind, now from the north west, meant a cold day with the thermometer struggling to reach just 3.1C, which was 4C below average.
Overnight the thermometer fell quickly under clear skies to a minimum of -3.4C giving a hard frost at 02.13, then advancing cloud lifted this to -0.8C at 08.00 the morning (Thursday).
Thursday morning arrived with 7/8ths cloud cover so not much possibility of sunshine but the temperature easing upwards.
Update on Thursday at 17.46: change in wind direction as it backed from north west to west, and a little brightness, allowed the temperature to ease upwards a little to 5.4C, up 2C on Wednesday but still 1.6C below average. A dry day.