Sunrise over ice left by the receding tide after another bitterly cold night on the Tay Estuary. STEPHEN FINN / ALAMY LIVE NEWSThe big freeze which has gripped much of Britain will be replaced by rain and high winds with 50mph gusts expected later this week (Jeremy Watson and Alistair Grant write). Snow and ice have caused treacherous conditions across vast swathes of the UK, with a low of minus 12.6C recorded at Braemar in the Highlands last week. A yellow weather warning is still in place across much of Scotland for snow and ice until midday today with up to 6cm expected on higher ground. We will see another weather system pushing in from the west and that is going to bring hill snow to Scotland but elsewhere it will bring rain…

Source: The Times February 04, 2019 00:00 UTC