Last year we had heatwave - this year we're all freezing (From Harwich and Manningtree Standard)
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Ramsey weather watchers record low for March
12:00pm Saturday 16th March 2013 in News
Last year we had heatwave - this year we're all freezing
BRITAIN'S bonkers weather saw amateur forecasters reaching for their records as temperatures plummeted earlier this week.
Brenda and Colin Knight, from Ramsey, has been monitoring the weather every day for 14 years.
Monday was the coldest day in March since they started keeping records with the midday temperature only just managing to creep above zero.
Exactly a year ago Tendring in was basking in a mini heatwave.
On March 11, 2012, the retired couple saw temperatures hit a sizzling 17 degrees - 62 Fahrenheit - in their back garden.