Bank Holiday Weekend Weather Input - Frosty - Alresford, Hampshire. Pictured: One of the local volunteers lighting one of the candles in the night. The Grange Hampshire lit their bougies in the early hours of bank holiday Saturday morning during a period of frost with the following nights looking similar. A team of around 10 local lighters assembled having been alerted by a call at 2am in the morning. It took them about an hour and a half to light the 450 candles and, once the sun comes up and it has warmed above freezing, a different team of about 6 come out and extinguish the candles that haven't burnt out to be used another night. They are all volunteers who get rewarded for their pains with a bottle of wine. Zam Baring, CEO, The Grange Hampshire Wine said ?Frosty nights are all about horrible judgement calls? How cold is it going to be getting two or three hours' time? How much damage will be done to the buds if we don't light the candles? And, if we do light the candles tonight, will we have enough left for what is coming down the line tomorrow night, the night after or even next week? It is undeniably a beautiful sight, but it's a terrible sight too!O "There were very bad frosts last year in 2020 during the second week of May and, despite working hard to counteract the cold, The Grange Hampshire suffered a more than 60% reduction in yield over the previous year. We use around 1,500 candles each year" ? Simon Czapp/Solent News & Photo Agency UK +44 (0) 2380 458800