A state of emergency has been declared in five states, with the storm set to bring the coldest temperatures in over a decade.

As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, blizzard warnings were issued in three states while a new major winter storm moves across the nation. Around 60 million Americans from the Dakotas to Delaware were under winter weather alerts as of Sunday morning,

The wintry wallop comes as a blast of Arctic air will invade much of the Midwest, Great Lakes and northern United States for roughly a week.

A city's gritting teams have been making two four-hour circuits of its major roads to ensure no snow sticks or ice forms as wintry weather is forecast. Amber weather warnings for snow and ice across the north-west of England have been issued by the Met Office meaning "significant disruption" is expected from 21:00 GMT and the alert remains in force throughout Sunday.

A yellow weather warning for snow and ice put in for Yorkshire on Monday has been extended. The Met Office issued the weather warning earlier today but this has now been extended to North Yorkshire. Yorkshire was battered by snow on Saturday night,