Snow returns but repeat of big freeze discounted
Forecasters issued a weather warning last night after snow hit parts of the UK but said this was not the start of a new big freeze.
Plummeting temperatures were expected to make roads and pavements dangerous with widespread ice in areas affected, meteorologists said, but today is expected to see a return to clear skies and no further blizzards.
A Met Office spokesman said: "There has been light snowfall across the north of England.
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Hide Ad"Temperatures will drop to below freezing – to around minus 2C in Newcastle and about minus 1C in Leeds – but we will not see a return to anything like the kind of lows we experienced last month."
Late yesterday evening the Highways Agency said the snow had caused no road closures.