'Southerners are urged not to travel. Northerners should put on their big coat': Twitter users see the funny side as Britain struggles to work on Black Ice Monday
Britain was facing a chaotic 'Black Monday' today but Twitter users are seeing the funny side.
Much of the country has been paralysed in the past 24 hours following the first serious snowfall of winter - and today more than 2,000 schools are closed and at least 4,500 homes remain without power.
Cars have been abandoned and motorists left stranded as some suffered crashes on the roads - while thousands spent the night at Heathrow, Birmingham, Stansted and Luton airports after flights were delayed or cancelled.
Some 50,000 British Airways passengers are said to be stranded - 30,000 in the UK and 20,000 in Europe after a cold night which saw temperatures fall to -12.2C (10F) in the aptly-named Chillingham Barns, Northumberland.
But people were quick to see the funny side and social media was full of memes and jokes about the UK as it struggled to deal with the adverse weather conditions, using the hashtags #SnowWatch and #BlackIceMonday.
A bored motorist who was stuck in traffic on the M25 on Sunday made a snowman and put a hi-vis jacket on it
Gabrielle wrote that she had never seen it snow in the capital and added that it was a 'wonderful' sight
Lorin Bell-Cross posted a picture of an empty trolley by the River Thames and joked that London was scenic in the snow
Other Twitter users were quick to post messages saying that they 'hate' dealing with the snow
Wayne Mann, from Stowmarket, posted a picture of his glass of Jack Daniels and said it was 'on ice'
One Twitter user posted a video of Will Smith dancing in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and wrote 'London's covered in snow'
Twitter user Merlin posted a picture of Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders and wrote: 'Be careful out there'
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