would love to hear from more northerly folk who can maybe beat these temperatures...Brrrr
You don't need to go north for cold temperatures!!.
We've just returned from a 1,400 mile trip to Devon and back. One of the coldest temps we had was -16c in Devon on Thursday morning when we left to return home. Absolute coldest was -18c on Friday morning at the Westmoreland Hotel just off the M6. That was so cold that the spare bottle of screenwash I keep in the boot was frozen solid!!
Got back home in the far north of Scotland, and it's +2c and sunny, and my weather station shows only a low of -8.1c (in open air) and -6.1c (under cover) over the last week. Since most of the airfields up here are on the coast, I'd imagine they've been equally "warm".
Must go and clean the car now - 1,400 miles-worth of salt :(