Last night was another cold night across many parts of the UK with the coldest conditions focused across parts of Scotland, Northern England and Wales.

The table below shows the minimum temperatures observed across the UK last night, ranging from -13.8 °C at Topcliffe in North Yorkshire to 4.5 °C at St Mary’s Airport on the Isles of Scilly.

It was a less cold night across Scotland where the coldest place was -8.3 °C at Carterhouse in the Scottish Borders. However, across the rest of the UK it was another very cold night. In England the lowest temperature was -13.8 °C at Topcliffe, in Northern Ireland, Katesbridge fell to -12.2 °C and in Wales Llysdinam recorded -10.8 °C.

The list below is the full range of temperature information available to the Met Office media team.

The two images below show lying snow reported at stations at 0900 this morning and stations where minimum temperatures of lower than -5 °C were reported last night.

Map showing amounts of lying snow across the UK reported at 0900 on 9th December 2010

Map showing locations across the UK that reported minimum temperatures of less than -5 Celsius overnight into the 9th December 2010