A immense flurry of snow, crystal and upwind warnings person been issued this play arsenic Storm Bert begins to expanse crossed the UK.
Flights were grounded, bid services delayed and motorways battered by blizzard conditions connected Saturday arsenic the tempest swept successful from the Atlantic, with weather experts forecasting a "multi-hazard" premix of adverse upwind to travel implicit the adjacent 24 hours.
The tempest claimed its archetypal unfortunate conscionable earlier 1am arsenic temperatures plunged and Storm Bert swept in. A 34-year-old antheral died astatine the country aft his Renault Captur collided with the chromatic wall successful Shipley, West Yorks.
In the northbound of England and parts of Scotland, dense snowfall fell for respective hours this greeting and disrupted question - but further south, radical person been warned to expect unsafe precocious winds and imaginable flooding.
Jason Kelly, Met Office Chief Meteorologist, said: “Storm Bert starts to get overnight connected Friday and into Saturday, initially implicit Northern Ireland. As we spell done the archetypal portion of Saturday morning, it volition commencement to amusement its manus crossed Scotland, northbound Wales and bluish England, with the imaginable for immoderate dense snowfall, particularly implicit higher ground.
"Warnings are successful place, including an amber informing for snowfall and crystal for parts of Scotland.” Here's a afloat database of areas presently covered by Met Office upwind alerts - including 'act now' amber warnings and little terrible yellowish upwind warnings:
Image:
Met Office)Amber informing for snow
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Northumberland
North West England
- Cumbria
- Lancashire
Image:
PA)Scottish Borders
- Strathclyde
- East Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Yorkshire & Humber
- North Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
Image:
Dave Johnston)Amber informing for snowfall and ice
Central, Tayside & Fife
- Angus
- Perth and Kinross
- Stirling
Grampian
- Aberdeenshire
Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Highland
Strathclyde
- Argyll and Bute
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Iain Buist/Newcastle Chronicle)Yellow informing for rainfall and snow
Central, Tayside & Fife
- Angus
- Clackmannanshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Perth and Kinross
- Stirling
East Midlands
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
Grampian
- Aberdeenshire
- Moray
Image:
George Cracknell Wright)Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Highland
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Northumberland
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
Image:
Iain Buist/Newcastle Chronicle)North West England
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Cheshire East
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Lancashire
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Dumfries and Galloway
- East Lothian
- Edinburgh
- Midlothian Council
- Scottish Borders
- West Lothian
Strathclyde
- Argyll and Bute
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
West Midlands
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
Yorkshire & Humber
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- North Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
- York
Image:
Getty Images)Yellow informing for wind
London & South East England
- Brighton and Hove
- East Sussex
- Hampshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Portsmouth
- Southampton
- Surrey
- West Sussex
South West England
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
- Bristol
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Dorset
- Isles of Scilly
- North Somerset
- Plymouth
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Torbay
- Wiltshire
Wales
- Bridgend
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Neath Port Talbot
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Vale of Glamorgan
Image:
Alex Lentati/LNP)Yellow informing for rain
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
West Midlands
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire