Out in the sticks here in Berkshire, I don't think we got above -2C, and didn't witness any of the sunny spells suggested by the BBC's local weather site; just a mid-grey blanket of cloud all day.

-9C driving through patches of fog just before sunrise this morning, brilliant sunshine all day but below freezing because the consistency of snow on the ground is unchanged (although I was indoors all day) and now -8.5C through patchy fog all the way home. A clear view of the newish moon above. Lekker weer. (and a reasonably enjoyable Dutch lesson this evening - bonus!)

That's Rotterdam and the countryside to the south of the city, for dem dat don't know.

40.7 at 17:30

that's over 105

-12C this morn, and my car tried to overheat when stuck in a queue.

(Boolbar) They all do. I'm no fan of radiators.

Striking off at a tangent. My daughter would like to know why household radiators are so called, when they should really be "convectors" ?

Mrs INJ was woken up by our local earthquake (a whole 2.9 on the Richter scale). I slept through it.

My god, the weight of snow blanketing the country must now be so thick it's beginning to distort the Earth's very crust!

Appreciably less effort has gone into clearing roads of snow in the midlands compared to previous years. I blame the bankers.

Three things I am grateful for, in the snowy conditions.

1. I only live 5 miles from work, along gritted roads
2. West Berks council are well-funded and efficient
3. 5 or 6 young men that were pushing every car out of the village I work in on Friday morning, when the MD decreed we could go home. They were cheerfully jogging down the hill, pushing a car up it until they got some grip near the top, waving them on their way, and jogging back down again. I'd buy them a pint if I knew who they were.

(Phil) Not having to go to work is also very useful. But band rehearsal was cancelled tonite which I thought was feeble.
Jakutsk update - the fog has just cleared for the first time this year and they have a balmy -32° with light snow.

[Rosie] I did continue to work from home for most of the rest of the day. In theory I could probably work from home every day, and pop in for the odd meeting - maybe once a week for an hour.

Just made zucchini chutney. Yum.

[flerdle] And now you've made me crave Brie - yum!

Interesting weather day today, with no warming forecast in the daylight hours. The 7am temperature was 27, and the hourly forecasts indicate a monotonically declining temperature until 5am tomorrow, when the temperature is forecast to be 13. I haven't checked over night data, but I suspect there has also been a monotonic decline for the last 12 hours or so, from yesterday's high of around 39. If I'm right and the forecast is right, that suggests we will have eventually have seen declining temperatures for about 36 hours straight.