AS a mini snow blizzard takes hold of Essex, weather centres are advising people to be aware of snow settling.
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow today, expecting more snow showers and long spells of snow through the rest of today and overnight.
They predict only small amounts of snow are likely to settle on roads during the daytime, but from around dusk around two to five centimetres of snow could occur.
The Essex Weather Centre has given a short range forecast for today, which is unseasonable cold with strong north-easterly winds, creating severe wind chill, scattered snow showers and a maximum temperature of1C.
Tonight tempertures are falling back below freezing with widespread ground and air frost, further snow showers with a risk of gails, minimum temp -5C, but Tuesday look to be dry and bright with lengthy spells of sunshine, odd snow showers and apossible maximum temp of 3C.
The Met Office station at Writtle College also reported -2.1c at 3pm, which according to the centre have not been seen as daytime temperatures in March since the 1980s.
Currently there are no delays on Greater Anglia trains which run from London Liverpool Street to Norwich.