While the low overnight on Wednesday did not beat Tuesday’s -14C in Dalwhinnie in the Scottish Highlands, UK temperatures taken as a whole made Wednesday night the coldest of winter.
On Wednesday night, temperatures dropped to:
- -11.1C in Shap, England
- -9.4C Sennybridge, Wales
- -7.2C Katesbridge, Northern Ireland
In Scotland, where hundreds of schools have been closed, the temperature dipped as low as -13.6C, the second lowest UK temperature this winter. The Met Office recorded the provisional figure in Tulloch Bridge in the Highlands. On Tuesday night the mercury fell to -14C in Dalwhinnie in the Scottish Highlands, making it the coldest January night since 2019.
On Thursday the bitterly cold Arctic air stayed with us and, as well as giving snow in northern Scotland, there were some wintry showers in parts of Northern Ireland, north and west Wales, eastern England and some parts of the south-west.
An amber warning was in place for the Shetland Islands and far north of Scotland until 18:00 GMT on Thursday.