UK weather: Chilly start to the week with temperatures as low as -6C
Chilly and grey weather will linger over most of Britain during the coming week, the Met Office has said.
While temperatures dipped as low as -6C on Sunday night, the rest of the week may be slightly warmer with highs of 5C - but forecasters said it will feel close to freezing in the "fairly brisk" easterly winds.
Rain, drizzle and some sleet will fall today and tomorrow.
Snow is forecast but mostly on hills, with a few centimetres of coverage possible in the Pennines.
Slightly drier weather is expected by the middle of this week, but temperatures will still be around two degrees lower than the February average.
Weather fronts will push in from the southwest later in the week, bringing a risk of patchy rain, but that is likely to be contained to west Cornwall and Ireland.
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Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said: "The bulk of the UK even to the end of the week stays in this cold air, often quite cloudy, but drier generally away from that far west and southwest corner at the end of the week."
A yellow cold health alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) for the southeast of England and parts of northern England and remains in place until 9am tomorrow.
Around 1,500 without power after Eowyn
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people remain cut off from electricity more than two weeks after Storm Eowyn's record-breaking winds hit Ireland.
Power has been restored to 766,500 homes, farms, schools and businesses but some 1,500 remain without supply.
Amid the reconnection efforts, scam text messages are purporting to come from ESB Networks.
The National Cyber Security Centre warned members of the public to exercise caution when receiving messages from unknown numbers, and said government departments, agencies and banks will never text asking unexpectedly for bank details.
Uisce Eireann said it is also working to return service to the "final few" customers without water
Elsewhere, emergency response hubs are assisting people with basic needs such as water, hot food, phone charging, broadband access and shower facilities.
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