It remained just above freezing but we had snow and hail showers on and off all day. Returning home at 10pm there was snow on all the parked cars.

Not quite frost, Steve, or at least I don't think so. We had SNOW! and hail. The high ground to the south of us (100m) still has a trace of snow lying. As we came home from a club meeting last night the cars in the village had a thin coating of snow on their roofs. Cold now but brighter.

Snap! The trouble with having our own computers.

I'm glad I live in the middle of a fairly big town, I got down to +1 but it was -2 at some of the more rural Bedfordshire sites I noticed.

My reading of +1.5C last night was the lowest in May for 14 years, have escaped (air) frost since early March here :)

we had no snow,frost but it was a bit cold but thats it realy in sunny norfolk.

we had frost again this morning in the northeast, feels like its never going to warm up.

Garden seems to be standing still after a real burst of life in the warmth of late April. My climbing yellow rose has been in bud for ages, looking back at pictures, it bloomed on 2nd May last year!

Here in Birmingham we have stayed above 0 so just been missing the frost. Even so i fearfully brought the containers and baskets that i had taken outside back indoors again. It is still quite cold.

It was cold here in London last night, short of frost. My tender plants were snug under fleece and plastic tent at night time. Until the last few years gardeners, even this far south, planted no tender plants 'till May be out'. Relaxed this. Humans havn't caught up yet. I see even quite mature people going about lightly clad in Brass monkey weather......brrrrrrrr

there called very young and vain people i believe dorjac .

Well I had a nice warm fleece on when I went shopping and when we went for a walk... I 'did' actually unzip said fleece as it was very pleasant in the sun but the temp. never rose above 9˚.

Whilst out shopping I too was amazed at the number of folk dressed as if the temperature was in the high teens or even higher... shorts/polo shirts and some dire combinations!

We haven't lit our multi fuel stove this evening but are still wearing woollens.

My runner beans have been in and out of the greenhouse like a fiddlers elbow over the past few days and nights (do fiddlers go in greenhouses?) and when I went to work this morning at 5.30 - had to scrape ice off the windscreen. I have made a decision to plant the runners in the next couple of days and fleece them. Everything else in the garden seems to be ok with the primroses still hanging on and everything else dying to burst out with flowers.

at least it keeps you fit cammomile look on the bright side

Thick white frost at first light here this morning, even in town. Air temperature reading was +0.4C, the lowest in May since I moved here (1996). Plants seem ok though, even the toms/aubergine and pepper in the unheated greenhouse.