Severe weather warnings in place as temperatures drop

Freezing temperature are set to continue in Scotland today as the UK is plunged into icy winter weather.

Temperatures hit as low as minus 11 in some parts of Britain last night as the Met Office predicted snow at the weekend.

Severe weather warnings are in place until Sunday, with icy conditions expected in south-west Scotland and much of England tomorrow.

Tom Tobler, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said: “Most places will see temperatures of no more than 1C or 2C today and a few won’t get above zero.

“By tomorrow morning there’s some patchy rain and snow arriving in north-west UK.

“It will move south eastwards during the day, bringing quite a lot of snow with it.

“There could be several centimetres in much of the country, except for some western areas where it will turn more readily to rain.

Across Europe, popular travel destinations are even worse off, with bleak temperatures such as minus 14C in Berlin, minus 17C in Prague, minus 8C in Paris, minus 13C in Stockholm and minus 20C in Warsaw.