Plunging temperatures have helped to create some truly spectacular icicle hedges with icicles also spotted hanging from bridges.

Echo Camera Club member Lauren Bush took pictures of hundreds of iciciles she'd spotted hanging from trees and bushes. 

Echo Camera Club member Martin Turner captured this picture of an icicle waterfall effect in Arrowsmith Road, Canford Magna.

Meanwhile, Aexandra Sketcher captured these rather precarious spikes under the railway bridge in Dalling Road at the junction with Coy Pond Road.

Temperatures are set to remain on the cold side over the next few days.

A yellow weather warning for snow has been in force in Dorset since the early hours of Monday morning. It comes to an end at around midnight tonight.

An amber cold weather alert is also currently in place. 

However, Dorset has escaped the heavy snow which has been seen across the far south east of the country.

There was a very light dusting of snow which settled briefly on cars in parts of Dorset on Tuesday morning, but this quickly disappeared.

• Read more: Is this the only snow we'll see this winter? Residents wake to a light dusting

Today’s high will be 3C at around 3pm but it will ‘feel like’ -2C or -1C during the day.

Tonight will see temperatures fall even further with it feeling like -7C.

Posting on Twitter this morning, Bournemouth-based forecaster DorsetSnow said: “Probably the coldest night of this cold spell tonight. Widely down to -4/-5c and -6c possible in frost hollows. Cloud cover will once again increase across coastal areas during the morning.”

From Thursday, temperatures will climb slowly with highs of around 4C expected by Saturday.

To join the Echo Camera Club visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/echocameraclubdorset