After the extremely cold night Monday into Tuesday the thermometer struggled to get above freezing on Tuesday reaching a maximum of 1.2C at 13.54, which was 5.8C below the average. The thermometer fell back to zero at 16.10 and reached a minimum of -3.2C at 01.31 early Wednesday, which was 4.5C below the average.
Daylight on Wednesday morning revealed a very light covering of snow from large flakes that fell in the early hours amounting to 0.1mm. The cloud that brought the precipitation lifted the temperature to -1.2C by 08.00.
The soil temperature has continued to fall under the extreme cold with a reading at a 5cm depth of -0.7C at 08.00 that followed a temperature of 0.2C that time on Tuesday.