UK weather: Moment drivers tackle heavy snow flurries as Met Office warns of travel chaos with mercury dropping to -3C

THIS is the infinitesimal drivers are seen tackling dense snowfall flurries, aft the Met Office warned of mercury dropping to -3 degrees Celsius.

The icy tempest deed Huddersfield, West Yorks, today, with dense snow seen mounting up connected the roadside.

The footage shows car edging dilatory on the road, arsenic the tempest continues to batter their windscreens.

A snow-ploughing lorry tin besides beryllium seen passing done the shot.

It comes arsenic portion of an "Arctic chill" that has sparked carnage for drivers crossed Britain.

The Met Office has enactment yellowish weather warnings successful spot crossed the East Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales and the northbound of England, with forecasters predicting these could adjacent beryllium "escalated".

The tempest brings with it a accidental of power cuts, disruption to roadworthy and public transport and the hazard of wounded from slipping connected ice.

The warning, which came into effect astatine 7pm, volition stay successful spot until 11am tomorrow.

A abstracted informing was besides successful spot this morning covering the acold northbound of Scotland.

It was here, successful the Scottish Highlands, that mercury dropped to -3.3C.

Met Office expert Tom Morgan: "We could spot immoderate disruptive snowfall successful the Pennine regions, successful particular, the Peak District arsenic well, particularly Monday night.

"But we could good spot immoderate impacts lasting connected until Tuesday morning's unreserved hour.

"Even down to little levels, we could good spot immoderate snowfall arsenic well, truthful rather a spot of disruption is imaginable by Tuesday morning.

"The week up is apt to enactment acold nationwide, a windy time tomorrow, and past winter showers done the week ahead.

"What we tin accidental is that it's going to beryllium precise acold for the for the clip of year.

"There volition beryllium wide overnight frosts, and a fewer locations wherever there's snowfall connected the ground."

He added that the snowy flurries presently hitting the northbound of England could creep into the southbound too.

However, determination volition beryllium highs of 5C crossed the state - higher than accustomed for this clip of year.

Mr Morgan added: "There'll beryllium immoderate snowfall showers successful the peripheries of the UK, peculiarly bluish Scotland, and down the eastbound and the westbound coast.

"But if you unrecorded inland and you unrecorded successful the south, there'll beryllium tons of sparkly bluish skies connected the astir days done Tuesday to Friday."