Winter wonderland: Frost makes much of countryside look like a Christmas card
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 8:10 AM on 8th December 2010
After a day of freezing fog and a night where temperatures reached well below zero in many parts, residents of Great Britain's countryside awoke this morning to find spectacular scenes straight from a Christmas card.
The green landscape had been turned into a beautiful frost-covered wash of white in many parts of the country.
Despite the below-freezing temperatures there was little snow outside Scotland, and instead the precipitation on grass and leaves froze and turned to ice.
Picture perfect: A dog walker strolls past frozen willow trees in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, yesterday morning
A herd of deer was pictured in Bristol's Ashton Court estate trying to forage for vegetation through the frozen ground.
Not all animals were as unfortunate though; a badling of ducks was seen happily swimming through water in Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire, surrounded by a landscape that had been turned white with frost.
Surrounded by a beautiful landscape dusted white with frost, ducks swim on water at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire that hasn't frozen over
Morning mist: A herd of deer try to forage on a ground covered in frost in the Ashton Court estate in Bristol
Despite the brief respite from snow for much of England, it looks like the country is set for another chilling wallop of weather as forecasters warned that the snow which has plunged Scotland into chaos will move south by tomorrow morning.
A deluge of snow which saw up to 16in fall in a matter of hours north of the border stranded thousands of motorists overnight and left schoolchildren stuck in their classrooms.
The Met office warned today that the freezing weather front would cross the border and hit Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the early hours of Wednesday to create carnage in rush hour.
Cold start: People walk their dogs through Ashton Court yesterday morning. Despite temperatures of -4C, however, the area avoided snow overnight
Trees in Clanfield, Hampshire, turn a brilliant white colour as their leaves are covered with ice
Eerie: The Victorian Arnos Vale cemetery in Brislington, Bristol, was given a white hue as the freezing conditions froze vegetation
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