Still frosty

[mtbc]

It remains unusually cool here: for example, at present it is around -3°C outside. The grass in our yards is tipped with white and we have to scrape ice off the car windows before driving. The average low in November is above 2½°C and even in December, the coldest month^* here, the average low is just above freezing. I don't know enough about either the temperature variance nor statistics in general to be able to estimate the likely length and frequency of such icy periods.

^*which makes me wonder at people who think that winter starts toward the end of it

Update: I now read from the James Hutton Institute (on our side of Dundee) that it was the coldest November since 1993.