Hoar Frost

Nobody in the UK will fail to have noticed it is cold....very cold. There was a short, partial thaw at the weekend. That cleared most of the snow off the roads and dried them which was handy because since then it has been very cold. Monday morning -6C and this morning it was -9C. The good thing about the cold is the hoar frost. Everything is coated in a crispy ice layer. I had to run a errand in the car to another town, the trees and bushes were spectacular in the bright sunshine. The sky was blue, the sun was out but there is no heat in it. Even through the middle of the day the frost was not melting. By the evening it was a balmy -1C.