Despite the snow and the storms ..it's the warmest for 91 Years

HITCHING up her skirt and wearing sunglasses, a beach girl went paddling in what could have been a scene from the height of summer yesterday.

But her barefoot dip at Dawlish, Devon, comes in the depths of winter - as weather experts reveal last month was the warmest January for 91 years.

Despite recent snow flurries and howling gales, they say we got off lightly with a "ridiculously" high average temperature of 5.9C - at least 2.5C above the norm.

Dawlish Discussion

Despite the snow and the storms ..it's the warmest for 91 Years