Temperatures are set to drop 'like a stone' overnight, bringing the risk of freezing ice.
Traffic came to a standstill on the M62 trans-pennine motorway in the early hours of Friday after heavy snowfall
National Highways operational control director Andrew Page-Dove said there was a risk of potentially freezing rain and more snow.Heavy snow overnight into Friday in parts of Wales and north-west England caused disruption including long delays on the M62 trans-Pennine motorway. National Highways gritters were delayed on the M62 by stranded lorries unable to cope with the conditions, he added.
One woman who got stranded on a nearby road told the BBC she had "never seen anything like it" and had to be helped by mountain rescue. In England, hundreds of schools across North, South and West Yorkshire, as well as the West and East Midlands, Lancashire and Greater Manchester, were also forced to close.
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