Up to SIX INCHES of snow set to fall as Siberian blast brings return of the big freeze

Daily Mail
"Andrew Sibley, of the Met Office, said: ‘It will feel very cold later in the week because of a brisk north-easterly wind. In eastern counties there will be significant snow.’The average temperature last month of 1.1c (34f) was colder than for any January since 1987 – and the ninth-lowest in the past 100 years.Parts of eastern Scotland and North-East England saw snow as deep as 23 inches, while Altnaharra in Sutherland recorded the lowest temperature of the month, at -22.3c (-8.1f) overnight on January 7 and 8.According to climatologist Philip Eden that was the coldest anywhere in Britain for 14 years.He added: ‘The severity of the cold period during the first half was such that January turned out to be the coldest since 1987.’