Milder weather coming before more cold health alerts take effect

Another round of cold health alerts is set to come into force on Sunday following a brief break from the weekend's subzero temperatures. After readings dipped as low as minus 7C early on Saturday, most places on Sunday morning will be milder and free of frost. Into the new week, the wintry chill is set to return with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) cold-health alerts beginning for the north-east and north-west of England and Yorkshire and the Humber from 21:00 GMT on Sunday.

Milder air will arrive on Sunday morning, with temperatures sitting around 2 to 6C for most places, although the coldest spots in central and eastern England may still drop close to freezing. It follows a bitter morning on Saturday with minus 7.2C recorded at South Newington in Oxfordshire - the lowest temperature of the autumn so far. As weather fronts move in from the west, areas of showery rain will drift from eastwards across much of the UK through the day.

Outbreaks of rain will be fairly widespread by midday on Sunday with the chance of mountain snow in Scotland and thunder and lightning in the south.