Parts of Cardiff's Roath Park have frozen over as the city saw yet another night of freezing temperatures. A low of -13°C was recorded in Wales overnight.
Temperatures of -8°C were recorded in parts of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan on Friday morning (December 16). Warning signs have been placed around the lake in a bit to stop people venturing onto the surface as the ice is very thin. The warning comes after the tragic case in Solihull last weekend that left four young boys dead.
Brothers Finlay and Samuel Butler and their cousin Thomas Stewart were pulled from the freezing water and rushed to hospital where eight-year-old Finlay and 11-year-old Thomas died a short time later. Ten-year-old Jack Johnson also tragically died on Sunday.
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In the wake of the tragedy, emergency services teams have called on people to be careful around frozen water. In Ebbw Vale, police officers say they are still receiving reports of young people playing on the frozen pond in Beaufort.
A spokesman said: "We urge everyone to understand the dangers associated with frozen water and welcome reports from the public of anyone seen doing this."
Temperatures dipped to another low of -13°C overnight, making it the coldest December night since 2010. That low was recorded in Lampeter, with -11°C in Tirabad, Powys.
Temperatures today are not expected to rise higher than 6°C as the Artic blast continues, and there is an amber warning for snow across the central belt of Scotland, but there is a change on the way over the weekend.
On Thursday, there was widespread train disruption after signals froze near Cardiff Central when a heating system broken down, there were delays on the M4 as ice was removed from the Brynglas Tunnels, and the River Ely froze over in Cardiff Marina.
There is expected to be a change in the weather over the weekend with temperatures gradually rising.
BBC weather presenter Derek Brockway said it will feel "positively mild" Sunday night into Monday. More details here.
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