Top Of The World.....The "BIG" Freeze..!

The UK and most of Europe are experiencing one of the most severe earliest Winter spells in decades. Parts of the East of the Uk have had over two feet of snow and Gatwick airport has been closed for a few days and the old record of minus 27.2c in Scotland last reached in December 1995 is under threat in the next 12 hours! As always we Brits always struggle in these situations but this has been a very potent cold spell, and so early in the season is really quite incredible, and our European neighbours are struggling too! Here are a few BBC links to clink on to find more about our Severe weather....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Altnaharra  , Scotland....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11899115
A "COOL" trick with hot water at minus 40c!     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11877471