Drag its heels for a time across east anglia and south east england, but the skies are clear behind that, and with clearing skies, down by the temperatures. We are looking at a widespread frost developing, leading to icy stretches on untreated roads first thing wednesday morning. Wednesday it self, another atlantic front is going to be moving into the british isles, bumping into that cold air once british isles, bumping into that cold aironce again, british isles, bumping into that cold air once again, and we will start to see some of that turn into snow. The snowy weather is mainly going to be across the hills in the north of the uk. Parts of scotland, may be the north east of england, we could see some accumulation. 2 5 centimetres across the highlands and southern uplands, localised disruption possible. The winds are going to be very gusty. Gusty winds further south as well, 50 60 mph. Although the day starts off on a bright note across the east, the cloud works in throughout the da
But well start with the Winter Olympics action from pyeongyang where lightning unfortunately struck twice for elise christie. Four years ago she was disqualified in each of her three events in sochi. This morning it was the 500 metres short track speed skating final. Our correspondent David Ornstein reports from south korea. Elise christie arrived in pyeongchang with high hopes of redemption following triple disqualification from sochi four yea rs disqualification from sochi four years ago and now a triple champion. The world record holder in this event the 500 metres. She sailed through the heat and the quarterfinal earlier today, the semifinal presented warning signs, a scrappy semifinal presented warning signs, a scrappy race and she finished second and then disaster struck in the final. Not a great start and then on the penultimate lap with her in third place she slipped off, she said that she was pushed into the hoardings and left on the ice. Afterwards she spoke to the bbc and sh
The U.S. women’s singles team was led by Park City s Ashley Farquharson, who placed sixth, while Emily Sweeney finished the day in eighth place after coming back from a challenging first run.
Germany's Julia Taubitz successfully defended her overall women's
singles title in the Luge World Cup despite failing to win a medal at
the concluding event in Winterberg.
Germany has captured the first two bobsled gold medals of this year s world championships, with Laura Nolte driving to the win in women s monobob and Johannes Lochner winning the two-man championship.