Leeming in North Yorkshire has just broken its December minimum temperature record, the mercury falling to minus 16.0C (7F) in the last hour. The previous December record was set in December 1981, when the temperature fell to minus 14.7C.
December 1981 was the snowiest December of the 20th century.
The record winter temperature at Leeming remains minus 16.7C recorded in January 1945.
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