Map shows where Met Office forecasts up to 20cm of snow across UK

Arctic aerial has swept crossed the UK, plunging temperatures down past 0C successful immoderate areas arsenic the wintertime chill sets in.

The Met Office has issued yellowish weather warnings for snowfall and crystal successful bluish Scotland from 4pm connected Sunday until 11am connected Monday, informing that determination could beryllium question disruptions and powerfulness cuts.

The forecaster has besides issued a yellowish informing for parts of bluish England and confederate Scotland connected Monday and Tuesday, with up to 20cm (around 8in) of snowfall imaginable connected higher ground.

There is simply a tiny accidental of up to 10cm (4in) of snowfall settling astatine little levels, which could beryllium disruptive, forecasters said.

Last nighttime the lowest somesthesia was recorded astatine RNAS Yeovilton, successful Somerset, which was -0.9C, portion USK successful Wales recorded the highest somesthesia of 14.1C.

Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: ‘You’ll announcement a alteration successful the temperature. It’s going to commencement to consciousness overmuch colder arsenic these winds get from the north-northwest.

‘They’ll besides transportation predominant showers, which volition beryllium falling arsenic sleet and snowfall implicit bluish Scotland, peculiarly for Shetland, wherever determination could beryllium immoderate settling of the bedewed snowfall supra a mates of 100 metres.

‘Meanwhile, it stays comparatively mild further south, albeit precise cloudy and immoderate outbreaks of rain sinking into confederate parts.’

When volition snowfall fall?

The archetypal of the yellow warnings is successful spot from 4pm connected Sunday to 11am connected Monday. It affects mostly the Scotland’s Highlands, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Orkeny and Shetland.

Road and obstruction journeys could instrumentality longer owed to slipper surfaces and crystal patches. These could besides pb to slips and falls.

The Met Office said: ‘During Sunday, showers volition crook progressively wintry done the time with hail, sleet and immoderate snow.

‘Little snowfall is apt to settee astatine debased levels by day, but done the evening and overnight, 1 to 3 cm whitethorn accumulate successful immoderate places, whilst 5 to 10 cm is imaginable connected precocious crushed supra 300 metres by Monday morning.’

A 2nd yellowish informing predicts a tiny accidental of disruption from snowfall betwixt 10am connected Monday and 10am connected Tuesday, arsenic acold southbound arsenic Sheffield and Yorkshire.

The Met Office said: ‘Spells of rain, sleet and snowfall are apt during Monday and overnight into Tuesday morning.

‘The astir apt script is for astir of the snowfall to autumn connected precocious ground, with 5 to 10 cm imaginable supra 300 metres and possibly arsenic overmuch arsenic 15 to 20 cm supra 400 metres.

‘There is simply a tiny accidental of snowfall settling astatine little levels, wherever 5 to 10 cm would beryllium overmuch much disruptive, but this is precise uncertain.’

Where volition snowfall fall?

This Met Office compiled a database of areas affected by the yellowish warnings.

From Sunday to Monday this includes:

Grampian

• Aberdeenshire
• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Na h-Eileanan Siar
• Highland

Orkney & Shetland

• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

From Monday to Sunday, this includes:

Central, Tayside & Fife

• Clackmannanshire
• Falkirk
• Fife
• Stirling

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

• Cumbria
• 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

Yorkshire & Humber

• North Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire
• York

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