Recording breaking cold on the way as icy blast brings heavy snow

An icy blast coming from the south west means the snow must go on, weathermen have warned.

“Significant snowfall” is likely to cause more travel delays and school closures in many areas, with freezing fog and a hard frost also causing problems.

Temperatures are set to fall to minus 10C in many areas in the early hours with this winter’s record of minus 10.8C expected to be broken somewhere.

Snow brought Manchester and Liverpool airports to a standstill yesterday. Manchester only reopened at lunchtime.

At least two people from the city took the weather warnings as seriously as possible, setting out on skis for their morning commute.

Footage of a man on skis making his way down a road in Didsbury was shared widely on social media.

University of Manchester student Gabrielle Sanderson, 20, filmed the skier and said: “There were quite a few people stuck at the bus stop since the traffic was blocked up.

“He was getting further than the traffic so I’d say he was pretty successful.”

The deepest snowfall recorded by the Met Office at 9am yesterday was four and a half inches at Tulloch Bridge in Inverness-shire.

Disruption caused by the snow is set to deepen with the weather system from the south west pushing north throughout today. It is expected to bring a harsh frost and freezing fog as well as heavy snow.

Weather warnings have been issued for most of England and Wales today until tomorrow night.

Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: “It does have the potential to bring some very significant snow. We already have a warning out in force for it.

“It’s currently just a yellow warning, but it’s not out of the question that will be ramped up nearer the time.

"It’s looking like it will be a spell of persistent snow.

"It’s worth bearing in mind there will be some disruption, particularly to travel. If you are heading out on the roads, be aware your journey will take a lot longer than normal.”

Thousands of children enjoyed a “snow day” yesterday with more than 200 schools shut in Greater Manchester as well as some in Merseyside, including Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens.

Lancashire, Cheshire, North Wales, and the Highlands also had closures.

National Rail warned some train routes may need to run to an amended timetable if conditions get worse.

And Southeastern has already said it will implement an emergency timetable on Friday due to the bad weather.

Still, if you’re planning to toast the end of Dry January at midnight you can do it with a snowball. Cheers.

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