-13 degrees overnight

[Claretmisterg]

Met Office forecast giving -13 overnight temp tonight for Barrowford and -16 overnight tomorrow. Yet the hourly forecasts don’t go below -8/-9 respectively. So the forecast just looks wrong, or am I missing something ?

[StuffyClaret]

Hourly forecasts always show the Maximum likely temperature.

[Claretmisterg]

Hourly forecasts always show the Maximum likely temperature.

Cheers stuffy. -13/-16 looks very extreme for round here though.

[Bosscat]

Cheers stuffy. -13/-16 looks very extreme for round here though.

Once clocked -15 in the car at Nappa on the A682 at 8am a few years ago...

[claretonthecoast1882]

Cheers stuffy. -13/-16 looks very extreme for round here though.

We are reaching the stage where a coat will be needed

[bigdavethemaddog]

dont they factor in the windchill which makes it feel that temperature?

[Loyalclaret]

Big argument in our house this morning as 6 year old was adamant he was going to school in shorts.

[martin_p]

Big argument in our house this morning as 6 year old was adamant he was going to school in shorts.

If he’s adamant he’d be better off going to school wearing a dandy highwayman outfit with a white stripe across the bridge of his nose.

[Archie Claret]

Martin P...that was very funny!

[TsarBomba]

We are reaching the stage where a coat will be needed

And putting the heating on!

[SouthLondonexile]

Being a soft southerner, I always compared the weather to being like the Russian Steppes.
My dream was to have small holding halfway up a steep sided valley within sight of the Turf.
I’ve recently dropped the idea of keeping a couple of horses - or perhaps i could have some rescue ponies.

[bobinho]

We are reaching the stage where a coat will be needed

Big coat?

[bobinho]

Big argument in our house this morning as 6 year old was adamant he was going to school in shorts.

Does he want to be a postman when he grows up?

[bfcjg]

Being a soft southerner, I always compared the weather to being like the Russian Steppes.
My dream was to have small holding halfway up a steep sided valley within sight of the Turf.
I’ve recently dropped the idea of keeping a couple of horses - or perhaps i could have some rescue ponies.

Don't publicise the fact you might someday have horses/ponies so close to Blackburn, some of the fiddlers have been known to get past our border security.

[Stonehouse]

Don't publicise the fact you might someday have horses/ponies so close to Blackburn, some of the fiddlers have been known to get past our border security.

See my post about the disease.

[dougcollins]

They've definitely overcooked this one (though a bad analogy under the circumstances).

Met Office forecast says it's -12 right now where I live, just been out and about in the car which is giving -3. That feels about right.

[Bosscat]

Accu App weather currently here in LP.

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[AlargeClaret]

The met office are absolute hysterical drama queens and “ sex up” the forecasts to outrageous levels , when calm factual info would be far better .

[blatherwickstattoos]

Does he want to be a postman when he grows up?

Who doesn’t

[pureclaret]

Big coat?

well perhaps a cardigan not sure a big coat weather yet, would have said jumper but unless has a zip you cant let the air in when to warm

[pureclaret]

and I cant afford the scott Parker zip jumpers at £5k

[ClaretPete001]

I've been walking the dog up Cribden Hill this evening and it's cowd but nowt special. There is some proper nesh folk around these days.

[Jakubclaret]

-7 in the car driving not so long ago I'll be surprised if it hits double figures. If you keep yourself active enough you hardly notice the chill.

[BurnleyFC]

Coldest I’ve ever seen around these parts was about -11C. Must’ve been over 10 years ago.

[Bosscat]

Our greenhouse min/max thermometer recorded -7.5 last night here in LP.

[Tribesmen]

-5 in Galway this morning

[GetIntoEm]

Car said -6, doesn't feel any colder than 0 to me. Once it gets cold, feels the same

[AfloatinClaret]

It must be almost exactly 40 years ago - sometime in Jan 1984 - that I spent the night in a tent near a pub up above Hebden Bridge; called the Lamb or something similar. Temperatures apparently dropped to -22C overnight, if that were not daft enough in itself, I'd travelled to/from said pub by motorbike from Hampshire. On the upside, that episode has always been a sound defence whenever my wife's tried to claim I've gotten dafter as I've got older.
The two abiding memories of that weekend were my moustache freezing to my sleeping bag and needing to warm the bike's engine oil to start it on the Sunday morning by way of a petrol stove under the crankcase.

[Burnley1989]

It must be almost exactly 40 years ago - sometime in Jan 1984 - that I spent the night in a tent near a pub up above Hebden Bridge; called the Lamb or something similar. Temperatures apparently dropped to -22C overnight, if that were not daft enough in itself, I'd travelled to/from said pub by motorbike from Hampshire. On the upside, that episode has always been a sound defence whenever my wife's tried to claim I've gotten dafter as I've got older.
The two abiding memories of that weekend were my moustache freezing to my sleeping bag and needing to warm the bike's engine oil to start it on the Sunday morning by way of a petrol stove under the crankcase.

I went for a run late last night, my toes were so cold it honestly felt like I was running with broken toes, it was more of a hobble than a run

[IanMcL]

-6 in Stirling last night. Only minusc1 in Salisbury, although my village had a power cut at 12.30am.

[ecc]

What clothing will Cantwell be wearing? Poor lad was begloved on Saturday. Maybe a double-onesie?

[Bosscat]

Just been up to our Greenhouse and its -6C already brrrrrrrrrrr ...

[Stayingup]

Heaven help.if your reliant on a heat pump.

[cbx750]

It must be almost exactly 40 years ago - sometime in Jan 1984 - that I spent the night in a tent near a pub up above Hebden Bridge; called the Lamb or something similar. Temperatures apparently dropped to -22C overnight, if that were not daft enough in itself, I'd travelled to/from said pub by motorbike from Hampshire. On the upside, that episode has always been a sound defence whenever my wife's tried to claim I've gotten dafter as I've got older.
The two abiding memories of that weekend were my moustache freezing to my sleeping bag and needing to warm the bike's engine oil to start it on the Sunday morning by way of a petrol stove under the crankcase.

Rallyman's Rally? Did it in 1981 but it only got to -6 that year Shoulder of Mutton was the pub now a house.

[Bosscat]

-7.2C on our Greenhouse max/min thermometer overnight last night here in LP

[Croydon Claret]

-5 when I went out fishing this morning. I need to find an indoor hobby

[MDWat]

If he’s adamant he’d be better off going to school wearing a dandy highwayman outfit with a white stripe across the bridge of his nose.

Very good gear. Fair play.

[bfcjg]

https://news.sky.com/story/britains-gas ... s-13286305

Can somebody rationally explain why when we have our own gas fields we are so critically low on gas storage? OK I get the need to reduce carbon but why are we not reducing gas extraction when there is enough renewable power from various sources to keep us going. Really is a testament to how F in useless our elected politicians are of all persuasions.

[AfloatinClaret]

Rallyman's Rally? Did it in 1981 but it only got to -6 that year Shoulder of Mutton was the pub now a house.

That was the one; The Shoulder of Mutton, almost a lamb .
We did four or five Rallymans, though the Mrs dipped-out from 83-87 when we were living down south. That 84' weekend was a trial run for the new tent & sleeping bags we'd bought ahead of our honeymoon a few weeks later at the Elephant Rally; she did turn out for that one at least, though Salzburg was tropical compared to the Shoulder of Mutton.

[Clovius Boofus]

I'd be opening up more fields, rather than feeding the likes of Drax with highly polluting biomass from Norwegian and Canadian forests. Gas is a much cleaner fuel, and we have more than enough in the UK, yet we pay high prices to import the stuff from halfway around the world. Meanwhile, people can't pay their bills, yet it doesn't have to be like this.

[burnleycclaret]

Weather set to improve from Monday thankfully.

Fell on my arse on Thursday walking back from the gym due to the ice.

[Bosscat]

-7.6C last night here