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This is holding daytime temperatures several degrees below the seasonal norm with some late-season frosts at night.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

This combination of weather types - with a lack of overnight frosts - has meant an early bloom of spring flowers, especially in southern England.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Elsewhere across the UK there will be widespread overnight frosts and an increasing risk of snow showers affecting parts of Northern Ireland, northern England and North Wales by the end of this week.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

As the year comes to a close and icy winds bring the first frosts of winter, they are flying to warmer places to nest and feed.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

But Sounder was warm because the boy’s father had put two burlap sacks under the porch for the time when the hard frosts came.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong