UK weather sees temperatures set to plummet to -5C with 100mph freezing gales bringing hail

As low pressure system responsible for this week's gales moves away, it will suck bitter Arctic winds in from North Temperatures will fall below freezing over weekend and get even colder with forecasts as low as -10C in Newcastle 5,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland without power as well as750 properties in Wales Power cuts at 2,000 in Charminster, Wimborne & Poole in Dorset, and Saltash & Salcombe in Cornwall Met Office yellow 'be aware' wind warning is in place for North West, West Wales andmuch of Scotland Walker, 19, wearing jeans and plimsolls saved after being trapped high on snow-covered peak in Snowdon Danger as high winds rip off section of roof from Polmont Young Offenders Institution in Brightons, Falkirk A man in Lisburn, Northern Ireland has died after a tree fell on his van, crushing him inside the vehicle

By Mark Duell for MailOnline

Published: 04:36 EST, 15 January 2015 | Updated: 20:51 EST, 15 January 2015

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We have been struck by gales, blizzards and flooding, but so far winter has spared most of us the worst of the icy temperatures until now.

The country is to be gripped by a deep freeze that will last for days, with a bitterly cold weekend ahead and some areas dropping to -10C by Monday.

If the predictions are right, it will be England's coldest spell for two years.

As the deep low pressure system responsible for this week's gales moves away - which flipped over a caravan in Cumbria yesterday - it will suck bitter Arctic winds in from the North.

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UK weather sees temperatures set to plummet to -5C with 100mph freezing gales bringing hail