families are being rescued from deep drifts in the English Peak District as the country braces for its biggest snowstorms iAs reported by the BBC, no less (admittedly regional, but still…), dozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when their vehicles became stranded in deep snow on the roads of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Police and volunteers came to the aid of multiple families on Saturday evening, with similar scenes reported elsewhere in the country, including the 22 people that required rescuing in the neighboring county of Cheshire.

At around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported “sudden snow” had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley — many were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed, reads the BBC article.n a decade+.

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The Irish sea turned to ice and the Thames froze over for the first time in 60 years after temperatures in Britain plunged to record lows.

Seagulls perched on the frozen river's surface at Teddington, south west London, on Friday as it iced over for the first time since Britain's Big Freeze in 1963. And even the waves on Aldingham beach in Cumbria ground to a halt as the mercury plummeted.

Temperatures in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, dropped to minus 15.3C overnight on Thursday, a record February low for England. And the cold snap looks set to continue as bookies slashed the odds on Valentine's day being the coldest on record to 7/2.