The UK recorded its lowest temperature in more than two decades as the mercury plunged to minus 23C overnight following an “extreme freeze”.
Braemar, Aberdeenshire, saw temperatures hit a bone-chilling minus 23.0C (minus 9.4F), the coldest temperature recorded in the UK since 1995, the Met Office said.
The cold snap produced some icy scenes across the country:
The River Clunie in Braemar, Aberdeenshire (Jane Barlow/PA)A woman takes a photograph of large icicles forming in Epping Forest (Victoria Jones/PA)Society Bridge over the River Clunie in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, which had an overnight temperature of minus 23.0C (Jane Barlow/PA)Sienna, five, who has built an igloo with her mother Nicola Black in their back garden in Aberdeen (Nicola Black/PA)Fallow deer in Greenwich Park, London, as the cold snap continues (Ian West/PA)Snowy conditions in Braemar, Aberdeenshire (Jane Barlow/PA)Leeds Castle in Kent, where the moat has frozen over (Gareth Fuller/PA)A woman looks at frozen fountains in Trafalgar Square, London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)Swans and pigeons on the snow-covered ground in Harrow Lodge Park, Hornchurch, Essex (Ian West/PA)