January 27th 1940

Started to freeze up again with snow and sleet. The following day we had an extraordinary example of "super cooled rain drops" It had been snowing and must have been freezing on the surface when towards the end of the day it started to rain slightly - immediately everything was covered in a thick sheet of ice, hard and firm. We could have skated on the lawn at Bucklands late that night. The car was covered about ¼ " thick with ice, the roads were pure sheet ice, I have never seen anything so phenomenal happen so quickly.