Coldest night and day of winter
Last night -13.3c and -4.7c max, at 2000 was already -9c, but should not be quite as cold tonight.
There has been a constant breeze throughout gusting to 40 kph and with DP around -15c, the saturated landscape is now bone dry. A bit of snow cover and no breeze and we might have been threatening the -20c mark.
Interestingly the larger lakes are pretty much ice free, which seems rather odd, so I can only put it down to the wind. The mountain rivers also have far less ice than last year, but they were much lower after a dry period, whereas this year the volume of water is very high and they are running very fast.
DM. 740m. La Moratille. Correze. France.
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