Met Office hour by hour snow and ice live updates as amber weather warning hits UK

The cold snap continues across Wales and the rest of the UK with freezing temperatures set to plummet even further across much of the country. Temperatures fell to -9°C in parts of Powys overnight.

There is a yellow Met Office weather warning for large parts of Wales until 11am today. It says: "Occasional showers, falling as sleet and snow, are likely at times into Thursday morning. These will fall onto sub-zero surfaces, leading to icy stretches on untreated surfaces. Patchy small amounts of snow accumulating, but possibly 2-5 cm above 150 m in west and north Wales."

On Thursday morning, Dyfed Powys Police are warning of icy conditions. They said that an HGV is stuck on the A487 Rhos Hill near the turning to Boncath in icy and snow conditions.

Amber and yellow warnings for snow and ice have also been issued by the Met Office across Scotland, where temperatures have fallen as low as -12C overnight, and coastal areas in England and Wales on Thursday.

The amber warning for snow across northern Scotland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands is currently in place until 6pm on Thursday, with the potential of up to 20cm more snowfall. Parts of Shetland already saw around 23 to 24cm of snow on Wednesday, while snowfall even reached the far south-east of England, the Met Office said.

Other parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland have a yellow snow and ice warning spanning the whole of Thursday, while the north and northwest of the UK are likely to see further wintry outbreaks over the next 24 hours.

Marco Petagna, meteorologist at the Met Office, said: "At the moment we've got a northernly air flow and with the sea temperatures being about eight to 12 degrees there is that extra energy around the coasts and that northern wind to get the