11 February 2021

In Pictures: Icy scenes as temperatures plummet

By The Newsroom
11 February 2021

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.

The cold snap produced some icy scenes across the country:

People walk their dogs across the frozen pond in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh (PA Wire)
Leeds Castle in Kent, where the moat has frozen over (PA Wire)
A woman looks at frozen fountains in Trafalgar Square, London (PA Wire)
Swans and pigeons stand on the snow-covered ground in Harrow Lodge Park, Hornchurch, Essex (PA Wire)
A passerby stops to take a photograph of ice formations on a roadside near Sandridge, Hertfordshire (PA Wire)
A cottage surrounded by snow-covered fields near Stainmore, in the Pennines (PA Wire)
Rushmere Pond as the sun rises over Wimbledon Common, south London, during the cold snap (PA Wire)
A swan flies over two people as they swim along the River Itchen near Twyford in Hampshire as the cold snap continues (PA Wire)

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