Met Office map reveals where Storm Bert will batter UK as warnings for snow, gales & floods cover nearly ALL of nation

THE Met Office has activated 9 upwind warnings, including 2 amber warnings, arsenic Storm Bert batters the nation.

Virtually each country of the state is covered by alerts for snow, rainfall oregon ice.

Bert has brought heavy snow, dense downpours and precocious winds, resulting successful question chaos for many.

A bid of large roads person been closed, including a important motorway bridge, portion trains and ferries person been cancelled.

The Met's warnings see 2 amber alerts, some lasting from 7am to midday.

The archetypal is for snowfall and crystal and covers portion of Scotland conscionable westbound of Perth

The 2nd is for snowfall lone and stretches from the country to the westbound of Bradford to conscionable southbound of Edinburgh, branching disconnected westwards arsenic acold arsenic Dumfries.

The Met Office's Aidan McGivern said: "We'll spot 2 to 4 hours of dense snowfall crossed parts of northern England and Scotland during Saturday morning.

"This snowfall volition accumulate heavy and fast, with 5 to 10cm astatine little levels and arsenic overmuch arsenic 20 to 40cm implicit hills accompanied by beardown winds.

"You tin expect blizzards implicit hills crossed bluish England and Scotland, atrocious conditions for travelling and going implicit the hills and besides the hazard of powerfulness interruptions due to the fact that of snowfall physique up connected powerfulness lines.

"So each successful all, a aggregate hazard lawsuit arsenic we spell into Saturday morning."