Went out into the garden about 10am,and had to crack the ice off the top of the pond. It was quite thick as well....Glad im not a fish...they don't seem to like it either.
Mind you when i was driving home late last night..the temp thing in my car said it was -2 and that was at about 11pm.
Think it actually got colder through the night.!

jt

It was -4 in Chesterfield last night and was -3 at 8am. Not that cold really... wish we had more days / weeks like this, it's a refreshing change! Also we need it to kill some of the bugs off..

It's at least 1 cat cold; my male cat turned up at some ungodly hour this morning with an urgent desire to sleep curled up in my armpit. :)

This usually indiactes it's chilly.

Here in Walkley lots of hoar frost on cars and grass, soem ice in the odd puddle.

My koi seem to be really struggling with the cold spell at mo....Not sure but think a couple are on there way out.!
Hope the warmer weather comes soon..or ill have no fish left.........

jt

How deep's the pool, John?

I remember reading somewhere that the survival of a lot of life on earth depended totally on the fact that ice floats; were water like many other liquids where the solid phase is heavier than the liquid phase things would get squished whenever there was a cold snap.

last night at 5am it was minus 4C just off Sharrow Lane - according to my max/min thermometer hanging out the bedroom window

Going to be very cold again tonight so wrap those plants up!

Did the bubble wrapping yesterday!