FORECASTERS are predicting Scotland's big freeze will turn to autumn-like temperatures in the space of two days.
The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning valid till to at least 11am on Wednesday warning of further ice and potential snow showers.
Forecasters predicted temperatures would plummet to -7C in Braemar, Aberdeenshire at dawn on Wednesday and while expecting similar sub-zero lows later tonight.
But the big freeze is expected to switch to autumn temperatures on Friday when Glasgow is expected to bask in a mild 9C while it will be 7C in Aberdeen.
The Met Office latest yellow warning cover mainly the west of Scotland, with the east is largely clear. Snow was expected in the western Highlands.
Areas that get rain, snow or showers during Wednesday, primarily north west Scotland might get another ice warning later covering Thursday night.
A Met Office spokesman said: "It will start off cold on Thursday, but there is rain coming in from the west during the day, and some snow, which could be anywhere in the west of Scotland, including the central Highlands but not for very long before it turns to rain.
"And after that we expect temperatures to be milder for the following two or three days."
It comes after snow brought chaos to Scottish roads on Tuesday.
Snow covered the streets of Kelvinbridge in Glasgow on Tuesday
Police Scotland said that snow which hit commuters on Scotland's major motorways on resulted in 125 road crash incidents between 7am and 10am.
A three-vehicle crash on the A82, in Glencoe, closed the road in both directions for several hours, while Traffic Scotland warned of several weather conditions affecting the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful.
Elsewhere heavy snowfall caused traffic queues northbound on the M74 near Larkhall, also causing tailbacks on the M77.
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