Exotic killing cold 7th Feb

[stephenprudence]

2.0C exactly now

Expecting around 6-7C tomorrow.

[billdango]

Its -3c still here in southampton but so far not as cold as last night,And I noticed some cloud building to the South West while on the way back from St Denys.

Hopefully it should start getting milder from tomorrow and I can check my plants for any damage.

rgd billdango

[Kristen]

We leveled out at 19:00

2C at 14:00 to -7C at 20:00 Yesterday's fall
4C at 15:00 to -7C at 19:00 Today's fall
-8.5C at 01:00

Conservatory at +5C (new bottle of gas )

[jezza]

Got to -10c at 1am and then the clouds rolled in and it started to rise. Now at +3c and the snow that is still on the ground is melting quite quickly.

[Mr List]

are we out of the woods now?

[Nigel]

are we out of the woods now?

Yes.

[jezza]

are we out of the woods now?

Yes.

Good!

[flounder]

Its less cold in the woods, must be the tree cover

[GoggleboxUK]

I want to know where these WiFi enabled woods are?

[stephenprudence]

At the back of the wardrobe.. in Narnia.

[eddie]

They say it will be -30 down in Munich in the next few days.

On the bright side: beer will cool down quickly, the sort walk from the car to the house will probably be enough

[Dave Brown]

We may be out of the woods now, but will have to wait until April or May for the verdict on palm damage. I finally had a low of -7.2C on Fri/Sat and -6.2C last night, but the damage would have been done on Wed/Thurs with freezing winds. Although the temps only dropped to -2.2C the wind blasted it into everything

When the wind dropped it became much colder, but at least I was able to protect things. No chance of keeping fleece on large plants with 25mph gusts

Here Butia protected with 4m wide fleece

[Mr List]

i have a Trachycarpus , waggy and cycas revoluta in three little square pots that were frozen totally solid.

they look ok atm so i hadn't worried about them until you mentioned they don't show damage till later.

you think those are all dead?

[Nigel]

Dave, no worries there I am sure.

[Tom2006]

No way of knowing unfortunately until summer gets going. It took until July last year for my trachies to show that they were definitely dead.