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UK weather: Snow to hit Britain from TODAY ahead of icy commuter disruption – will your area be affected?
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SNOW is forecast to hit the UK today with Brits facing disruption on their commute as ice weather warnings are issued.
The Met Office has revealed that snow could fall in places in the North today.
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The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for much of the north and Midlands of England, spanning from 7pm on Monday to 10 am Tuesday.
Brits in these areas could face potential disruptions to their commute, with the Met Office urging people to plan ahead.
From Monday, the Met Office has predicted that 15 to 20cm of snow could settle in areas over 300 meters, with a chance it could settle at lower levels within the warning area, potentially causing major disruption.
Craig Snell, Senior Operational Meteorologist at Met Office, said: "Across Northern England and Southern Scotland it will turn increasingly to snow chiefly across the high levels but it may well turn to snow at lower levels from time to time.
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"We do have a warning force from Monday into parts of Tuesday too so if you do have travel plans here do keep alert to the forecast in the coming days."
Chief Meteorologist, Andy Page, added: "We have issued yellow warnings for snow and ice as cold weather moves in from the north.
"This brings snow showers and some ice to parts of Scotland on Sunday night, and then the potential for a spell of snow to lead to disruption to some transport routes across a central swathe of the UK on Tuesday morning.
"Gusty winds in the east also remain a potential hazard. Updates to the warnings for wintry hazards are likely so it is important to stay up to date with the latest forecast."
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Met Office meteorologist Ellie Glaiyser, in an online forecast, said it may be "quite a chilly start to the day" for many today.
Pointing to a UK map, she said: "It's this area of low pressure that moves in from the northwest as we go through Sunday and into Monday that's still causing us quite a few headaches.
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"It's that boundary of cold and warm air, that weather front, just bringing a risk of some sleet and snow that could be disruptive."
Ms Glaiyser explained most of it would remain over "high ground" but warned some could still hit on lower levels.
"What we do know with confidence... is that as we go through Monday evening and into Tuesday that area of low pressure pushes away towards the East and towards the continent.
"Leaving us northerly winds across much of the UK into the middle of the week, so turning widely much colder than we've seen through the start of November."
UK 5 day weather forecast
Turning unsettled, with an increasing risk of rain and snow.
Today:
Hazy spells of sunshine will be replaced by cloud and patchy rain across northern and western parts. Further blustery wintry showers for northern Scotland. Driest and brightest towards the south. Feeling colder
Tonight:
Scattered wintry blustery showers in the far north, with clear spells leading to a cold and frosty night. Unsettled across central areas with outbreaks of rain, heaviest in the west.
Monday:
Hazy sunshine in the north and east with wintry showers in the far north. Spells of heavy rain elsewhere, turning to snow, mainly over the high ground in the north.
Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:
An unsettled start on Tuesday with rain and possible snow, clearing to sunnier spells. Frosty mornings on Wednesday and Thursday but drier with a few wintry showers. Colder and windier.
Ms Glaiyser said that temperatures are forecast to drop to zero "particularly in some rural spots",
She warned this could cause "quite a hard frost likely on Monday morning, and this could lead to some icy stretches".
"We could perhaps see up to 20 centimetres of snow across the Pennines and at lower levels it will mostly be falling as rain," the forecaster added.
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has also issued a cold health alert covering the Midlands and North of England from Sunday morning through to Thursday.
It states that weather conditions are likely to have minor impacts on health and social care services including increased use of healthcare services by vulnerable people and there is a greater risk to life of vulnerable people.
Regions and local authorities affected by the yellow weather warning
Sunday
Grampian
- Aberdeenshire
- Moray
Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Highland
Orkney & Shetland
- Orkney Islands
- Shetland Islands
Monday and Tuesday
East Midlands
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Lincolnshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
- Redcar and Cleveland
- South Tyneside
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
North West England
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Halton
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
- Warrington
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Scottish Borders
Strathclyde
- South Lanarkshire
Wales
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Wrexham
West Midlands
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
Yorkshire & Humber
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Kingston upon Hull
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
- York
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