The UK was left shivering last night after a cold snap sent temperatures plummeting towards a nippy -7C.
Temperatures plunged overnight to their lowest this year as the nation enters a ‘colder phase’ of weather, the Met Office said.
Forecasters warned it would be a ‘very cold night’ on Friday ahead of a heavy frost-covered Saturday morning across England and Wales.
Overnight temperatures dropped well into the negatives in the UK with the lowest temperature of -6.6C being recorded in Sennybridge, Wales.
In the village of Shap, near Penrith in Cumbria, and in Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway, temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling -6.5C.
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