Snow and ice warnings remain after floods hit UK

Yellow warnings for snowfall and crystal stay successful spot aft terrible flooding and snowfall caused question disruption and schoolhouse closures crossed the UK.

The Met Office said wintry upwind is expected to bring icy roads and question delays to overmuch of westbound England, Wales, northbound and westbound Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

On Monday, large incidents were declared successful Lincolnshire and Leicestershire aft flooding caused by dense rains, with hundreds of flood warnings inactive successful spot crossed England.

North Yorkshire Police said the assemblage of a antheral had been recovered from floodwater adjacent the colony of Beal.

Sleet and snowfall showers were expected overnight successful parts of north-west and south-west England, the Midlands, and Wales.

Wet conditions and snowmelt could besides origin icy patches to make successful the morning, with the yellowish informing acceptable to enactment successful spot until 10:00 GMT.

In Scotland, akin conditions are apt to impact areas including Strathclyde, the Highlands, Aberdeenshire, and the Northern Isles, with snowfall accumulation of 5 to 10cm expected successful higher areas.

The existent informing expires astatine midday.

For galore determination volition beryllium single-figure temperatures on with adust conditions and immoderate sunshine expected done the remainder of Tuesday.

In Northern Ireland, rain, sleet, and snowfall was expected to proceed overnight connected Monday, with a informing of snowfall and icy patches acceptable to stay until 11:00.

Almost 200 flood warnings - including 1 terrible informing - and immoderate 300 flood alerts were successful spot crossed England arsenic of 05:00 connected Tuesday.

The warnings mostly use to parts of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Peterborough, with parts of Cheshire, Yorkshire, and the southbound seashore besides affected.

The terrible informing - indicating important disruption and information to beingness - applies to portion of the River Soar adjacent the colony of Barrow upon Soar successful Leicestershire, wherever a fig of caravan parks were evacuated Monday.

The Environment Agency said flooding of homes successful the colony was expected to proceed and stream levels were acceptable to stay precocious until Wednesday.

The little terrible flood alerts are successful spot crossed central, north-west, south-west, and confederate England arsenic good arsenic Yorkshire, portion a further 13 alerts are successful spot successful confederate and north-eastern Wales.

National Rail are advising passengers to cheque earlier they question owed to the crystal and snow, which they accidental could origin velocity restrictions and enactment closures.

On Monday, rescue workers successful Leicestershire helped astatine slightest 59 radical who had been trapped successful their homes oregon cars by flooding, portion successful Lincolnshire 50 children were taken to information by unpaid 4x4 drivers aft their schoolhouse was chopped off.

A captious incidental besides was declared by the region's ambulance service, East Midlands Ambulance, for the archetypal clip ever with flooding partially liable for the "level of escalation".

In North Yorkshire, constabulary said the assemblage of the antheral recovered from floodwater had been informally identified and that they were successful the process of tracing the man's adjacent of kin.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said his thoughts were "with each those affected" by the flooding and sent his acknowledgment to "responders moving hard to support communities safe".