Cold weather hits The Lizard wildlife
January 23, 2009
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Cold weather hits The Lizard wildlife
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10th January 2009
A very dry December and very cold start to 2009 has hit nature hard on National Trust land on The Lizard. Data from the Met Office reported a temperature of -7.8 Celsius on the night of the 6th/7th January: the coldest recorded temperature at Culdrose on the Lizard in a January for twenty years Figures from the Met Office showed that Culdrose actually recorded three consecutive hard frosts with temperatures also falling to -4 Celsius and -5 Celsius, making it one of the coldest starts to January in the area for many years.