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.
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The cold snap produced some icy scenes across the country:
People walk their dogs across the frozen pond in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh (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)
A passer-by stops to take a photograph of ice formations on a roadside near Sandridge, Hertfordshire (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
A cottage surrounded by snow-covered fields near Stainmore, in the Pennines (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Rushmere Pond as the sun rises over Wimbledon Common, south London, during the cold snap (Aaron Chown/PA)
A swan flies over two people as they swim along the chilly River Itchen near Twyford in Hampshire (Andrew Matthews/PA)
