Sunday, 24 Nov 2024

Rare ice 'pancakes' form on River Tyne after temperatures plunge

We’ve seen pancakes on our plates before – but have you ever spotted them forming across the water?

The UK’s bitter cold snap saw a rare phenomenon occur on the River Tyne in Hexham, Northumbria.

Paddleboarders Paul Sundin and Tim Frater came across the stunning scene of ice pancakes forming across the water on Monday following a night of sub-zero temperatures.

They form when foam on a river begins to freeze and join together, and is sucked into a swirling current of water forming the circular shape.

Dad-of-two Paul, 45, said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like them before, they were completely covering the river on one side.

‘They were like floating frozen pizzas. When you picked them up they fell apart but they were amazing to see up close.’

The coldest recorded temperature last night was in Braemar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the coldest place in the UK at -15.6C.

It means it was colder than Tromso in Norway, where it was a much balmier -6C.




The widespread wintry conditions compounded with train strikes has caused travel misery for millions up and down the country today.

Councils up and down the country are battling to get enough gritters out on the roads to keep them open.

Meanwhile, weather warnings remain in place for much of the UK with warnings of more snow potentially on the cards.

A yellow snow and ice warning covers northern Scotland and north-east England from midnight on Tuesday until noon on Thursday.

Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon warned snow could be on the way throughout the day further north.

He said: ‘Coming into force at midnight tonight all the way through to lunchtime on Thursday, (there is a) large snow and ice warning covering the North East of England, the whole sort of northern portion of Scotland, as well as the Highlands and islands.

He said there could be ‘as much as 15 to 20cm of snow accumulating over high ground’.

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