Cold-health weather alert put in place for Watford

Watford is expected to continue to get colder over the next few days. A low of four-degrees is predicted today and then one-degree tomorrow and on Monday, before temperatures could hit zero degrees on Tuesday morning, according to the Met Office.

The yellow cold weather alert for the vulnerable and elderly is in place across England from 9am today and lasts until noon on January 12, with temperatures likely to be a few degrees below average across much of the UK especially overnight, with ice an issue on wet ground.

• 15 new places to eat that opened in Watford last year
• Pool of sewage at 84-year-old's door refills within hours of draining
• Landlord ordered to pay £10,000 over mouldy property homing young kids

Met Office chief forecaster Jason Kelly said: “As the prevailing weather conditions will be characterised by high pressure, a good deal of settled weather is likely.

“Clearer skies and a marked reduction in precipitation are expected, although any showers that do occur are likely to be wintry in nature.”

There are also flood warnings in place for much of the country, including the Middle River Colne.

The river, which flows through Watford, remains high but rainfall is expected to ease over the weekend.

According to the Environment Agency, however, “the risk of flooding to low-lying land will remain”.