{"id":20673,"date":"2013-01-15T19:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/britain-braced-more-snow-disruption-055204039.html"},"modified":"2013-01-15T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:36:34","slug":"britain-braced-for-more-snow-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/britain-braced-for-more-snow-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow And Ice Cause Further Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Further snow and transport disruption is expected across parts of Britain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As much as six inches of snow has fallen on high ground overnight as a second heavier band was set to move south and east.<\/p>\n<p>The weather has already led to more than 20 motorists needing to be rescued from their cars and forced one rail operator to restrict speeds and cancel services.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Met Office<\/strong> issued an amber weather warning for snow on the East Midlands, eastern England, the North East and Yorkshire. Those warnings are expected to run until around 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread ice could also cause problems, with temperatures close to freezing.<\/p>\n<p>Rail operator Greater Anglia said routes between London Liverpool Street and Cambridge, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich would be subject to a 60mph speed limit overnight because of the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Some parts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire could get a second snowfall as the weather system spins out over the North Sea overnight and back towards land again, Mr Lee added.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the country should have a dry but chilly day, but temperatures in Scotland, the North East and Eastern England will struggle to rise above zero, while London will get to around 3C (37F).<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to drop further to around minus 8C (17.6F) on Wednesday night with the possibility of more light snow flurries.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters have warned the cold snap could last until Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>::<\/strong> Send us your <strong>photos<\/strong> or <strong>videos<\/strong> of the snow where you are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further snow and transport disruption is expected across parts of Britain on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAs much as six inches of snow has fallen on high ground overnight as a second heavier band was set to move south and east.<br \/>\nThe weather has already led to more than 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}