A cold snap will start to set in on Saturday with overnight temperatures plummeting to just 5C and winds strong enough to bring down trees will batter the South

Britain is to be battered by multiple bands of rain and 50mph winds as temperatures drop as low as 5C in the aftermath of Storm Barbara.

The named storm from Spain and Portugal has rampaged across the UK for two days, but new foreboding weather fronts are arriving in her wake heading into the weekend.

Thursday acted as a ‘stopgap’ between the worst of the torrential rain, but saw scores of flood warnings in place, with more downpours and gale force gusts arriving into Friday.

A cold snap will start to set in on Saturday, with overnight temperatures plummeting well into single digits in the early hours of Sunday in Scotland.