Map reveals what areas will be hit by snow and ice as Met Office urges Brits to prepare

People crossed the UK person been warned to hole for catastrophic upwind pursuing Storm Eowyn. A yellowish informing for snowfall and crystal has been issued

Brits person been urged to brace themselves for disastrous conditions pursuing a bid of weather warnings.

It comes aft new maps revealed what areas would beryllium deed by snowfall and crystal contiguous pursuing Storm Eowyn. The latest tempest has been branded "pretty exceptional" and was "probably the strongest storm" to deed the UK successful astatine slightest 10 years, the Met Office has said.

It was the astir aggravated successful "more similar 20 oregon 30 years" for immoderate parts of the country, forecasters added.

People crossed the state person bin deed with 114mph winds causing wide disruption, with 1 idiosyncratic pronounced dormant successful Ireland.

Kacper Dudek, 20, tragically died aft a histrion fell connected his car in Raphoe, County Donegal, connected Friday. It comes aft Northern Ireland and Scotland were plunged nether a red, danger-to-life informing up of the weekend.

The Met Office person since released respective yellowish warnings for upwind crossed the state including London and South East England. North West England, immoderate of the Midlands and Wales has besides been plunged nether the warning. The alert is successful spot until 10am connected Sunday.

The informing states: "Showers, mostly of rainfall and sleet astatine lowest levels and adjacent occidental coasts, but of snowfall supra astir 150m, are expected to impact the country during Saturday evening and overnight, earlier dying distant during Sunday morning. Temporary slushy deposits are expected beneath 150m, with locally 2-5cm supra this level with the accidental of 5-10cm supra 400m successful the Scottish Highlands. Additionally, icy patches volition signifier connected untreated surfaces."

Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey stressed that Wales and south-west England should hole for dense rain. He said: "Looking astatine Sunday, it's acceptable to beryllium a reasonably good commencement for a batch of areas - different ridge of high-pressure gathering successful to support things reasonably settled, with immoderate sunny spells successful there.

"The cloud, though, is going to beryllium gathering arsenic we spot a low-pressure strategy determination into the South West. This volition beryllium bringing dense rainfall successful for south-west England and Wales from benignant of mid-morning onwards, and past that volition dispersed into Northern Ireland and bluish England arsenic we caput aboriginal connected into the afternoon.

"Winds volition besides beryllium picking up with this feature. Certainly, it's not going to beryllium arsenic beardown arsenic Storm Eowyn. However, due to the fact that it's coming successful from the South West, it's going to beryllium really much confederate areas of England that are going to spot the strongest upwind gusts compared to what has mostly been further towards the north."

Central, Tayside & Fife

• Angus
• Clackmannanshire
• Dundee
• Falkirk
• Fife
• Perth and Kinross
• Stirling

Grampian

• Aberdeen
• Aberdeenshire
• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Highland

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim
• County Armagh
• County Down
• County Fermanagh
• County Londonderry
• County Tyrone

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