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It's back. Lots of us woke up to snow again this morning. According to the BBC, much of the country has been hit. And residents of this village will presumably be hoping the cold weather doesn't prompt another invasion of wild pigs...

For news on how the Arctic weather is hitting farmers, here's how FW's Focus writers have been affected, how milk producers have been disrupted and how livestock markets have been disrupted.

Here are some photos from the National Trust, showing some of the terrible flooding in the North West.

The news just seems to get worse from Cumbria... here's a round-up of all FW's floods coverage.

Here's the latest on how the storms in Cumbria are affecting the farming community.

There's also news and pictures on the BBC's site.

Quite a few parts of the country have been hit by storms in the last week or so. My colleague Phil, who writes a blog about agribusiness, took this pciture last weekend in 60mph winds at Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset.

Things to do this spring, as recommended by The Guardian.

I was half expecting - bearing in mind it was The Guardian - to find the list full of right-on extremely politically correct rubbish (vow to light house only by natural flame, save earthworms threatened by traffic in Surrey etc etc) but in fact they're saner than that.

I've stuck up for the Health and Safety Executive before - but here's a classic case of bureaucracy gone mad.

Students at Harper with a flair for engineering can turn their hand to anything mechanical - including this snow tractor.

I don't envy the bloke who's driving this today, I know that.

And still the snow keeps falling. You can find the latest weather news on the BBC website.

We've just been up to 16th floor of the office block where Farmers Weekly is based in Sutton in Surrey. The picture above shows the local train station. The one below has a faintly Lowryesque quality to it, wouldn't you say.

A friend of mine near Epsom in Surrey reckons they've got 13 inches of snow.

I know we think it's been uncomfortable, what with the cold weather, but it's been nothing compared to what this guy felt, all in the name of medical science. 

Doctors - and masochists - will probably be able to undertsand why he did it.

This cold snap - it's got even Parsley checking the weather forecast. From the enviable position of lying indoors under a few rays of winter sun, obviously. Well she's not going to go outside like us mugs, is she!

Crank the heating up: tonight's set to be another chilly one.

Experts say temperatures dropped as low as 14F (-10C) in parts of Scotland last night and that tonight even parts of the normally balmy south could see similarly low temperatures.

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning for London and east and south-east England this morning.

The Arctic conditions have prompted bookies William Hill to offer odds of 8-1 that people will be able to skate on the Serpentine in London by the middle of January.

Meteorologists, meanwhile, says the cold snap could be with us until the weekend.

Probate weather, as an aunty of mine's always calls it.

Just in case you think I'm in a grumpy and cynical mood, having been less than charitable about Emma's Luck, I thought I ought to prove I'm not by being nice about someone.

These two pictures, which I adore, were taken this week by a photographer friend of mine, John Eveson. Makes you feel cold just looking at them, doesn't it?

I've seen lots of depressing pictures over the past week or so of farmers hit hard by the floods. This one has stuck in my mind. It shows Richard Tutton at Trewern in Wales.

The shot below shows an almost totally submerged baler. And anyone who knows how high balers are will realise how deep that water is!

So, this month is all set to be the sunniest February on record. Well there's a surprise.

Another unlikely consequence of the warm weather - tortoises coming out of hibernation early.

Still, it's not exactly as if they're going to make a break for it or anything (not like the trout and salmon).