After an extremely cold start on Thursday, from a low of -7.4C, the many hours of sunshine lifted the thermometer to 0.6C at 12.34 for a very brief period. This high was 8.0C below the long-term average.
Once again the thermometer plummeted as the afternoon and evening progressed with -2.0C at 18.15 and a minimum of -9.4C at 08.14. This extreme low was 11.9C below the 38-year average and the coldest night since 2nd and 3rd February 2019 (-11.3C).
The breeze continued from the north and minimal, often calm, a maximum movement of air was recorded at just 11mph.
Friday dawned with a bank of fog, not in the valley but over higher ground and moving around, with visibility limited to 500m at its closest.
The right-angled ground thermometer, at a depth of 5cm, registered -3.8C at 08.00.
There appears to be a significant and imminent change in our weather pattern as later today the wind is forecast to back into the southwest, a much warmer air stream. There are currently seven centres of low-pressure to the Northwest and Southeast of the UK that will begin to affect our future weather. However, the ground is very cold so there is likely to be a frost again tonight, not hard, and modest above zero temperatures on Saturday.