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

Len, I recorded the lowest October temperature since before 2005 and
completely trounced my previous lowest October minimum of -2.2C (21st
October 2010).

Last night's minimum was -4.3C. I frequently have recorded entire years
where the temperature never gets that low.

It was exceptional, especially given that October frosts are fairly rare
(the last one being in 2010).

But a beautiful day ensued with unbroken sunshine yet again and a
maximum of 11.2C.

Going off chilly again! Could be another humdinger.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

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.