How to defrost your windscreen very, very quickly

Superbly-named meteorologist Ken Weathers suggests a simple solution of rubbing alcohol and water from a spray bottle

With between 10 and 20cm of snow forecast in northern parts of the UK over the coming days, here’s some useful information about how to defrost a car’s windscreen quickly.

Promising a “better way” to defrost a windscreen than using an ice scraper or a defroster, meteorologist Ken Weathers suggests a simple solution of rubbing alcohol and water from a spray bottle.

Mr Weathers says he mixes 1/3 of a cup of water with 2/3 of a cup rubbing alcohol to produce the defrosting spray.

He says it works because rubbing alcohol has a freezing point of -128°C.

The Met Office is urging people to prepare for “very difficult travelling conditions” over the next few days, with possible disruption to public transport and power supplies.