Sub-zero temperatures forecast as floods remain

Wintry upwind is forecast to tighten its grip successful galore parts of the UK this week with sub-zero temperatures plunging adjacent little than during the dense snowfall of the past weekend.

Weather forecasters foretell the coldest nights of the twelvemonth truthful acold connected Wednesday and Thursday, and temperatures are expected to autumn arsenic debased arsenic -20C successful immoderate areas.

A bid of yellowish upwind warnings covering the adjacent fewer days person already go progressive - with the latest informing implicit crystal successful parts of bluish Wales, arsenic good arsenic areas successful cardinal and bluish England, until 12:00 GMT connected Wednesday.

The acold upwind comes aft different time of flooding causing havoc successful cardinal England but, with nary further rainfall expected successful flood-hit areas successful the coming days, flood waters are apt to statesman subsiding.

Travel disruption continued connected Tuesday, with flights delayed, roads closed and railways impacted by the mediocre weather.

People continued to grapple with the interaction of the terrible flooding that has affected homes and businesses crossed the Midlands and a antheral had to beryllium rescued from a flooded caravan parkland successful Leicestershire's Barrow upon Soar.

There were 101 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, and 199 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, successful spot crossed England on Wednesday morning.

One flood informing and six flood alerts were successful unit successful Wales.

Looking ahead, upwind forecasters expect the flooding and warnings to trim with nary important rainfall predicted successful the areas experiencing flooding.

But by past the absorption volition person switched backmost to however acold temperatures are apt to fall, peculiarly during the night.

The crystal informing covering Tuesday nighttime and Wednesday greeting is accompanied by another, besides up to 12:00 connected Wednesday, which tells radical to beryllium alert of the likelihood of snowfall and crystal successful Northern Ireland and parts of bluish and occidental Scotland.

A abstracted yellowish informing for snowfall successful immoderate confederate counties of England volition travel into unit astatine 09:00 connected Wednesday, and volition past until midnight.

The wintry conditions person caused important disruption crossed the UK since snowfall swept galore parts of the state astatine the weekend.

Hundreds of schools were closed successful England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including schools successful Yorkshire, Merseyside, the Midlands and Aberdeenshire.

Most flights are moving again aft they were temporarily halted astatine airports successful Liverpool, Bristol, Aberdeen and Manchester – but operators person warned immoderate delays are inactive likely.

Some large roads were unopen due to the fact that of mediocre upwind conditions, including the A1 successful Lincolnshire which was inactive closed connected Tuesday day owed to extended flooding.

Bitter acold is expected successful galore parts of the UK successful the coming days, with the likelihood of crisp overnight frosts.

Temperatures are expected to driblet good beneath freezing connected Wednesday and Thursday night, with forecasters expecting galore parts of the UK to acquisition a hard frost and lows of betwixt -3C and -10C.

In places that are inactive experiencing snowfall cover, it could beryllium arsenic acold arsenic -14C to -16C connected Wednesday night, and connected Thursday the Pennines and snowfall fields of Scotland could registry temperatures arsenic debased arsenic -16C to -20C.

That would really beryllium acold colder than was experienced astatine the play erstwhile a debased of -13.3 C was recorded astatine Loch Glascarnoch successful the Highlands.

It is besides importantly little than thing seen past wintertime erstwhile a peculiarly bitter nighttime successful Dalwhinnie successful the Highlands saw a people of -14C being recorded.

The past clip the UK had immoderate somesthesia beneath -20C was successful February 2021 erstwhile Braemar successful Aberdeenshire was measured astatine -23C.