Coldest February In At Least A Decade

In Britain they are now predicting that, despite a few warm days, it is likely to be the coldest February in at least a decade.

When a pony's stable is the great outdoors, he doesn't get much of a roof over his mane.

So this fellow woke up in the New Forest in Hampshire with a fair dusting of frost on yesterday's freezing morning.

He didn't even have the comfort of a good breakfast, as the grass he nibbled at was just as icy.

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The freeze hit Britain hard on Saturday night as temperatures plummeted to -9C.

Much of the country woke up to a hard frost yesterday morning and the weather is expected to stay bitterly cold during the first part of the week.

Despite the freezing conditions, the sun brightened up what could have otherwise been a bleak day yesterday.

The temperature is set to fall below zero again tonight with weather predications of 3C.

Experts predict this month could end up being one of the coldest Februaries in 10 years despite the mild few days enjoyed by many earlier this week.

A Met Office spokesman said: "The coldest places are likely to be along the Welsh borders and across the Pennines where it could get down to -9C and it's likely to be well below freezing everywhere else." 

I pointed to a number of things that indicate how cold this winter has been in a post I did yesterday. It has been a thoroughly cold winter here in the American Midwest – in fact it is snowing again where I live and the north wind is brutal. When the warm days hit Britain it was a sign of global warming according to the press (can't find the article, oddly) now it is a cold winter. Funny, isn't it?