{"id":423365,"date":"2026-02-13T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423365\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:41:08","slug":"uk-weather-latest-arctic-blast-hits-scotland-and-northern-england-with-snow-and-ice-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423365\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather latest: Arctic blast hits Scotland and northern England with snow and ice warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold northerly winds bring frosty start in Scotland, with -7C recorded in Highlandspublished at 06:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\">Chris Fawkes<br \/>BBC Weather presenter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 17 January a blocking area of high pressure developed in Scandinavia and is only just starting to move away now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This prevented areas of low pressure from moving beyond the UK, so they&#8217;ve become slow-moving, bringing very wet weather, with south-west winds to the south of the UK and south-easterly winds to the north of the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This wind pattern is responsible for the distribution of rain, it&#8217;s been extremely wet for south England, east Scotland and eastern counties of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the Scandinavian high pressure out of the way, we&#8217;re finally seeing a change in our wind direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colder northerly winds are moving in today bringing hill snow for Scotland and north England. It&#8217;s an especially cold and frosty start in north Scotland with temperatures in the Highlands at -7C this morning &#8211; and continuing to drop lower for the next few hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the brighter side, after three weeks of gloom and rain in Aberdeen, it will be sunny for large part of today &#8211; we&#8217;ll have more on this shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cold northerly winds bring frosty start in Scotland, with -7C recorded in Highlandspublished at 06:34 GMT 06:34 GMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-423365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}