UK Weather: 4in of SNOW falls overnight in -15.7c freeze causing travel chaos

Commuters faced rush hour chaos this morning and hundreds of schools were closes after four inches of snow fell overnight - sending temperatures plummeting to -15.7C.

Travellers have been forced to turn back home after scores of train services were cancelled across the country.

Braemar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, recorded the UK's coldest temperature at -15.6C last night - the chilliest night of the year so far.

And the mercury is set to plunge to -10C in the coming days making the UK colder than Finland - where temperatures will liner at the -6C mark towards the end of the week.

Finland is where Santa Claus' homeland of Lapland is found.

The cold snap is set to continue into next week, the Met Office warned.