FORECAST

British Airways flights to Heathrow were cancelled, as were two KLM Amsterdam services and a Flybe flight to Wick.

There was also widespread disruption on the rail network after a train broke down at Glasgow Central at 7am, sparking a slew of cancellations, delays, and reduced services which ran on into yesterday evening.

Some 24 schools in the Highlands were closed due to bad weather and treacherous road conditions, with five schools in Aberdeenshire also closed.

It comes as the Met Office extended a yellow warning covering the east coast of Scotland and the Highlands and With temperatures expected to fall as low as -7C overnight, there will be a frosty start with icy stretches in places. Wintry showers could bring up to 5cm of snow, although this will be confined to higher ground to the east. Rain is expected to spread east as the day goes on. There will be further showers tomorrow, some of them wintry, with sunny spells and scattered wintry showers continuing into Thursday and Friday. islands, with freezing temperatures causing icy conditions and further snowfall forecast. The revised warning is set to last until late this morning.

Pete Williams, the RAC’S road safety spokesman, said the group expected to deal with 11,000 breakdowns by the end of the day, 20 per cent more than the seasonal norm.

He said “treacherous ice” and snow conditions had been “compounded” by plummeting temperatures overnight.

Breakdown cover provider Green Flag said it had received more than three calls every minute, over double the usual number for a Monday at this time of year.