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)
Society Bridge over the River Clunie in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, which had an overnight temperature of minus 23.0C (Jane Barlow/PA)
Fallow deer in Greenwich Park, London, as the cold snap continues (Ian West/PA)
Leeds Castle in Kent, where the moat has frozen over (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Swans and pigeons on the snow-covered ground in Harrow Lodge Park, Hornchurch, Essex (Ian West/PA)
