On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 11:41:42 AM UTC, Len wrote:
Had the third earliest air frost in my record going back to 1985 last night.

Oct 17th 1992 -0.6°C
Oct 29th 2008 -1.0°C
Oct 30th 2018 -0.5°C

It is more remarkable because in the last 4 winters I have had to wait until after New Year to have the first air frost.

Wot's going on? ;-()

Len
Wembury
SW Devon coast

From Peter Lea-Cox, Umborne

We escaped the extreme cold on Monday night, with just -0.6C; just about sufficient to damage the dahlias. But last night caught up with us with -3.5C.. Some of the banana plant leaves look like wet spinach! I had to go back to October 2003, where I found that the period 21-28 October inclusive gave readings of -3.1;-2.0;+3.7;-2.3;-3.5;+1.4;-2.5 & -2.8C.This gave me some solace. The last time we had an October airfrost here was in 2012.