Still not had an air frost from this 'spell'. The low last night was 2.1c - and this under cloud with moderate-heavy rain falling (no bloody snow, though!!)

We'll probably see temps dip below freezing over the next few nights, but what's the point of cold without snow??

No air frost here either yet - down to 1.7C overnight.

This morning started at least with blue sky for a change! 

As the morning's wore on, cloud has steadily increased from the North West, and there's "precipitation within sight" (love that old shipping forecast terminology! :-D). At this stage it looks eith rain, or a seagull has just dribbled a bit of piss against the office window as it flew over.

Tonight, I'm going to spread a box of Kellog's Frosties on the grass, just so I can remind myself of what a grass frost looks like :-D

Similar story here - overnight low of 1.5c but some very icy stretches in the lanes. Got caught out on one stretch and slid off the bike - not a morning for the roadie!

Low of 0.9C here, but no ice.

More unusual is the high: just 4.0C so far, which assuming it continues would actually give that rarest of things this winter - a cold day!

Frost with a Low of the month of 1.5c.  Beats the TWO days of !.6c. On the 1st and 13th.  The lowest  high has been 6.5c the past 3 days.  According to my NOAA Monthly Report on Cumulus.

The Arctic air has now arrived here in Kent.

Today's high was a rather subdued 4.3C (lower than the 6C forecast by the MetO earlier today), largely due to the lack of sun.

The dewpoint has steadily fallen since 2PM; it fell from 3.1C to freezing at 4:30. The dewpoint is now -2.8C and with an air temperature of +2.8C it meets my "rough and ready" requirements for snow (which is air+dew=zero or below - this only works within a few degrees of zero though!)

Talking of snow, there's some 20 miles away to the north, moving out of Essex. It's not meant to hit here (as it's spinning away SE'wards), but damn... it's close!

Pop up the road to Hurn on Saturday night; take a blanket, flask of hot chocolate and with luck a warm person to cuddle; oh, and a thermometer. Light northerlies, sandy soil, low daytime max, dry air, cold uppers.....and tell us all what you discovered.

We're hoping they'll be blanc.

[quote=picturesareme;756159]Well with temperatures currently at 3.5C, and no air frost forecasted until early Sunday I for one am not expecting snow let alone snow cover from any isolated rouge showers.

Standard January stuff this down here at the moment.

you mean standard October stuff! Rubbish! Yes bbc pretty much spot on earlier in week with their 8c for the south today -it was actually 8.2 ...who knows we might hit -2 by Sunday 

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Rogue😳 

First cold day of the winter here yesterday (max 4.3'c).

Although the wind has kept the temps up a bit at night, the ground is starting to freeze quite well under the clear skies.

We had a max yesterday of 3.7c, followed by a min last night of 0.3c

Still no air frost from this spell...

 Frost this morning. Low of 0.8c.  at   05:34 .....   Lowest this month. 

as of 11:10 this morning it was already 5C here so I'm expecting 7C at least. Winds are more westerly so less favourable for warmth then a northerly 

I will add, though, that everywhere was as frozen solid as it would have been if the temp had dropped to -10c

There's plenty of ice out there from showers earlier in the week. Lots of frozen-over puddles on the walk to school this morning, still from Wednesday night's rain.

The warning says "Temperatures will fall sharply after dark on Friday evening allowing icy patches to form on untreated surfaces, including footpaths and cycleways, especially where there have been wintry showers today. "

"Clear skies will allow temperatures to fall widely below freezing on Friday evening. Particularly at risk of icy patches are roads, pavements and cycleways which are either still snow covered, where surfaces are wet from partially melted snow or standing water and areas where wintry showers occur during the late afternoon or evening."

this implies that snow or wintery showers have or will have fallen by this evening in the areas. It's got nothing to do with the rain that fell earlier this week otherwise there would have been a weather warning last night for the bulk of Hampshire & West Sussex.

"Hampshire, Reading, Surrey, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Portsmouth, Southampton,"

No need to actually go as there will be sub zero temps and an air frost as Hurn is a noted frost hollow several degrees lower than the coastal strip from the cliff tops to the edge of the decent into the stour valley.Likewise in summer the maximums are a couple of degrees higher over at hurn than here.

There was ice on the cars here this morning,for the first time since November and although it has reached 6.3c today it feels bitterly cold in the keen wind

Fingers crossed the mild air returns next week!

Ice on puddles, first ice on the car psrked outside this winter.

West Dean, in a valley just north of Chichester in the Downs recorded zero C last night, -1 the night befora, but that's not unusual as it's a genuine frost hollow with cold air draining into the valley from the hills on either side.

FWIW, I don't consider Hurn a frost hollow as the topography is pretty flat with nowhere for the cold air to pond up. It's got very light dry sandy soil which cools rapidly in winter and heats rapidly in summer. (Yes, I live in Chichester but my sister lives in Hurn so I do know the area)