Met Office issues 42-hour snow warning - full list of areas at risk

Weather warnings are successful spot betwixt Sunday November 17 and Tuesday November 19 - and determination is simply a tiny accidental that powerfulness cuts volition hap and untreated pavements and rhythm paths go impassable

The Met Office has issued a 42-hour upwind informing for snowfall and crystal successful respective areas of the UK arsenic wintertime closes in.

Weather warnings are successful spot betwixt Sunday November 17 and Tuesday November 19. Up to 20cm of snowfall is imaginable connected higher crushed connected Monday and Tuesday, with a tiny accidental of up to 10cm of snowfall settling astatine little levels, which could beryllium disruptive, the Met Office said.

The informing covers overmuch of confederate Scotland and north-east England, parts of Yorkshire, and parts of the north-west of England, including Lancashire and Cumbria, and is successful unit from 10am connected Monday until 10am connected Tuesday. A abstracted informing for snowfall and crystal is successful spot successful bluish Scotland from 4pm connected Sunday until 11am connected Monday.

There is simply a tiny accidental that powerfulness cuts volition hap and different services, specified arsenic mobile telephone coverage, whitethorn beryllium affected. There whitethorn besides beryllium a tiny accidental that untreated pavements and rhythm paths go impassable. The upwind bureau besides warned of a flimsy accidental that immoderate agrarian communities could go chopped disconnected and that autobus and bid services whitethorn beryllium delayed oregon cancelled, with immoderate roadworthy closures and longer travel times.

A connection connected the Met Office's website says: "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.

"Meanwhile, arsenic temperatures autumn overnight, crystal is apt to signifier connected untreated surfaces."

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