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Thousands of properties are without power as temperatures plummet
Thousands of homes are still without power and many roads are impassable after severe weather affected much of the UK during the weekend.
In Scotland several thousand homes were affected after snow and strong winds damaged cables.
In Northern Ireland some households in remote areas have been warned it could be several days before their supplies are reconnected.
The Met Office issued a warning for ice as temperatures remain low.
It warned of lying snow melting and then refreezing overnight - leading to icy patches across much of the UK.
Also strong to gale force winds will affect some roads, especially over high ground, where snow drifts have accumulated.
'Like an ice rink'Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) said about 950 homes in remote areas were still without electricity. More than 140,000 properties have been affected by the severe weather in total.
NIE's Julia Carson said: "We've been using a helicopter to patrol remote circuits, and we've also commissioned an additional helicopter today, and they're going to actually drop emergency crews, engineers and some materials into these areas."
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Specialist rescue teams were deployed to help vulnerable people or those isolated in rural areas in Northern Ireland. Emergency oxygen supplies had to be airlifted to an elderly man who was snowed in without electricity.
Parts of south west Scotland and the isles of Arran and Kintyre were particularly badly hit by power cuts on Friday. Electricity engineers are still working to reconnect about 3,500 homes on Kintyre and 1,500 on Arran.
Fraser Henry, a manager at the Kilnoch Hotel in Blackwaterfoot, on the isle of Arran, said an emergency centre for local people had been set up in the hotel.
"The main problem we have is the amount of snow that fell. The roads are dreadful, the roads that have been cleared the snow has melted and is now just freezing over and the whole place is like an ice rink.
"Our hotel has had an old generator for 60 years. We're trying to keep that going at the moment so there is a warm place for the medics, the mountain rescue and the local fire brigade.
Winter weather in spring
- Caused by persistent easterly winds from frozen continental Europe which have chilled North Sea to 4- 5C
- Average land temperature is currently around 3C - normally should be nearer 6C
- Coldest March on record was in 1962 with a mean temperature of 1.9C, which will not be beaten this year
- 2013 could be colder than the more recent cold March of 1987 with a mean temperature of 3.3C
- Forecasters say the cold could hang on until the bitter end of March
"We've been told it could be Friday before we get the supply back."
Neil Young, a firefighter on Arran, said about 100 people a day had been taking advantage of his fire station's offer of hot food and drink, and shower facilities.
About 1,500 properties in Dumfries and Galloway are also waiting to be reconnected following a weekend of snow, blizzards and heavy winds.
Hundreds of people in Cumbria are also still without power and several main roads remain closed.
The weekend saw roads closed, sporting fixtures cancelled, and airports disrupted.
In the Peak District, Derbyshire, Laura Boddy said she had been cut off for the last two days.
"We certainly started running out of milk earlier on, and bread, but we managed to get out to a farm by walking over and through the drifts.
"In fact at times we had to walk on top of walls because that was the only clear space we could get to. It's still very snowy, thankfully the wind has now died down a bit but there have been drifts that are seven or eight feet high."
BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said there would be snow showers, mainly across north-eastern parts of the UK on Monday, and most areas would be bitterly cold.
She said the easterly, gusty Arctic wind would send temperatures plummeting to -4C in Newcastle and -2C in London.
"West is best today," she said. "There will even be some sunshine."
It will stay cold for the rest of the week, with bitter winds and snow showers. It could mean the first white Easter in five years.
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