Health alerts of a rise in deaths remain in place for another 24 hours
Neil Shaw Assistant Editor
06:14, 21 Nov 2025
Cars driving through snow on the A169 between Pickering and Whitby on the North Yorkshire Moors (Danny Lawson/PA)
Temperatures fell as low as minus 11C overnight as the UK’s cold snap continued ad health alerts remain in place for another day. According to the Met Office, the frigid temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury dipping below minus 7C across much of the country.
Temperatures were slightly milder in England and Wales, with lows of minus 6C at Trawsgoed in Ceredigion, Wales and minus 4C at Rostherne, Cheshire. Forecaster Simon Partridge said the chill stemmed primarily from “a little ridge of high pressure moving across the UK overnight”, adding “the main difference between that and previous nights is the winds are a lot lighter”.
Mr Partridge said that much of the country will see frost in the morning but that later in the day there is expected to be widespread sunshine. UKHSA alerts for extreme cold leading to a rise in deaths will be in place until 8am on Saturday.
Mr Partridge said: “Friday is really the end of the really cold weather as things turn back to average by the time we get into the weekend.”
It comes after hundreds of schools were forced to close, roads were disrupted and homes were left without power because of snow. About 100 schools closed in northern Scotland on Thursday, while in Wales, 36 were closed in Pembrokeshire, 14 in Carmarthenshire and seven in Ceredigion.
In North Yorkshire, 33 schools were closed while eight were listed as fully closed in East Yorkshire. The Met Office has a spate of yellow ice warnings in place across the UK on Friday morning, including north, east, south-east and south-west England, northern and south-eastern areas of Scotland and north and west Wales.