Temperatures set to plummet to below zero as polar air from Iceland blasts towards the UK
BRITAIN will be hit with a bitter blast of polar air today with temperatures dipping below zero in many regions.
The Met Office warned of icy conditions in Wales the East and West Midlands, and London and the South East.
The Met Office said two to five centimetres of snow may accumulate above 100 metres, with some expected on lower ground too.
The warning says that "Ice is expected to form as skies clear. Heavy sleet, hail and snow showers will follow, and these will be most frequent across Northern Ireland, western Scotland, northwest England and by morning across Wales and the north and west Midlands."
A severe snow and ice warning is already in place for the rest of the UK until midday.
Yesterday the coldest temperature of -6.4C (20.5F) was recorded at Shoreham Airport in West Sussex.
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London saw an overnight low of -1.4C (29.5F).
Met Office forecaster Martin Bowles said: “It is called a Polar Maritime Air Mass which is coming from beyond Iceland and Greenland.”
He added that some of the colder temperatures experienced lately had also come from Scandinavia.