The New Year gets off to a bone chilling start today with temperatures dropping as low as -4C. After subdued celebrations, the new year will be ushered in by widespread frost and freezing fog, while wintry showers are expected across north-eastern Scotland and the North East of England.
Met Office forecaster Clare Nasir said: "It's going to be a bitterly cold start to the new year across southern areas and quite murky as that fog lingers on. "It's going to be a cold day, particularly in the South where we're not likely to see the sunshine. "Brighter skies in western Scotland, the central belt, down towards the North West of England, and sheltered spots of Northern Ireland as well as Wales seeing some brighter skies." A New Year's Eve ice
Read more on mirror.co.uk