BRITAIN has been blanketed by snow, sleet and hail with temperatures plunging to -5C overnight.
The chilly weather means pubgoers may need to swap their sunglasses for thermals at beer gardens across the country today as lockdown restrictions lift.
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A motorist drives in an unseasonal wintry landscape on the Mynydd Epynt range near Builth Wells in Powys, WalesCredit: LNP
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Galloping horses in the Staffordshire Moorlands near WinkhillCredit: F Stop Press
After a biting night it will be a cold and frosty start for much of the UK.
Rain and snow will fall across the west and south west by dawn, according to the Met Office.
Scotland weather – Scots and UK blanketed by snow, sleet and hail as -5C big freeze hits overnight
Alice Fuller
Updated: 12 Apr 2021, 7:45
Alice Fuller
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SCOTLAND and the rest of the UK has been left feeling the big chill - with temperatures dropping to as low as -5C overnight.
And large parts of the country have been left covered in snow this morning.
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A motorist drives in an unseasonal wintry landscape on the Mynydd Epynt range near Builth Wells in Powys, WalesCredit: LNP
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Galloping horses in the Staffordshire Moorlands near WinkhillCredit: F Stop Press
After a biting night it will be a cold and frosty start for much of the UK.