Apparently north of Norwich it was minus 16 this morning & hydrolic fluid froze

[KatyMac]

That's bloody cold

it was -14 here a couple of weeks ago, car started fine, got to work on time

Apparently it was about 5am in a field loading sugar beet (not how I would wish to start my day tbh)

I didn't know it got that cold in England, Scotland maybe (however unlikely) but not England

I raised my eyebrow slightly but actually its probably not too far off a reading - at 8am this morning Norwich airport was at -11C

I tend to look towards Benson in Oxfordshire for coldest temps but clearly not this time!

-12 in my car at 9 am this morning. 5 miles south of Norwich.

We're in Norwich and this morning the bottle of antifreeze in the car had, er, frozen!

DH was at work this morning in Norwich (left at 5.30am) and the car was full of frost on the inside. He had to abandon and catch a bus.

Ds1 and ds2 both had four inches of ice on the inside of their windows this morning so it must have been cold!

I will be phoning Mr Plastics on monday and find out about a secondary glazing.

And we have a aches and coughs and a mouse. Honestly, its like something out of Dickens.

I have always maintained this bit of Norfolk has different weather

I thought it was bad yesterday when it was -2 at 3pm!

Friend of mine said it was -11 in Norwich and that was about 9am so I can well imagine -16 at 5am.

Samay - you must be in the same area as me, I'm half an hour south of Norwich, only just inside the Norfolk border.

I'm 0 mins from Diss

I am about 20 miles south of Norwich and my gearbox was frozen solid this morning. DP said it had been -9 during the night at work, wonder how long it will last? Mum asked today if I had a contingency plan if we couldn't get over for lunch on Christmas day?!

4andnotout, we drove through Massingham the other night and some of the decorations were really lovely.

We have no snow here in West Norfolk ish.

The tree outside the Dabbling Duck looks lovely doesn't it, I really want to buy some lights for outside but dp is refusing this year.

It is really lovely. I think the lights were left all year though? I vaguely recall seeing them in the summer...

DD was really excited by the drive through Massingham (there's a sentence I never thought I'd type). V festive.

Last year they were left on for months after Christmas, it was unintentional I think, and yes Massingham and excitement don't usually go hand in hand

2 weeks ago I left the house at minus 14 at 9am, and returned at minus 12 at 5pm. During the night it had dropped a lot lower obviously as our cold water pipe froze inside the house - upstairs only - and thankfully defrosted 2 and a half days later with no burst pipes. Yes it's been bloody cold, and no, not that unlikely OP.

Isn't it odd - I really didn't think it got that cold here

I'm north of Norwich and our thermometer showed -17 on Friday night/Saturday morning. It was quite balmy yesterday at midday at -10.

Norfolk always does different

DH drove home from Cambridge last night (gigging) was -11 at 2am so another record breaker I reckons

He couldn't open the car boot when he got home, it's frozen shut!!