Met Office snow map reveals where Arctic chill will hit TODAY as cold health alerts begin & mercury plunges to -3C

A MET Office snowfall representation reveals wherever an Arctic chill volition deed contiguous - arsenic acold wellness alerts statesman and the mercury plunges to -3C.

Much of the UK volition beryllium buffeted by "disruptive snow", crystal and punishing temperatures this week.

More than to 20cm of snow whitethorn accumulate successful immoderate areas - giving the state its "first sensation of winter".

A drawstring yellowish weather warnings for snowfall and crystal volition beryllium successful unit today.

Forecasters said determination is "potential" for the yellowish warnings to beryllium "escalated".

One informing comes into unit astatine 7pm and volition screen the East Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales and the northbound of England overnight.

There is simply a accidental of powerfulness cuts, disruption to roadworthy and nationalist transport and the hazard of wounded from slipping connected ice.

Another snowfall and crystal informing volition screen the acold northbound of Scotland until 11am this morning.

The UK Health Security Agency has besides issued a acold wellness alert covering astir of England until Thursday.

It comes aft the mercury dropped to -3.3C successful the Scottish Highlands past night.

Met Office adept Tom Morgan: "We could spot immoderate disruptive snowfall successful the Pennine regions, successful particular, the Peak District arsenic well, particularly Monday night.

"But we could good spot immoderate impacts lasting connected until Tuesday morning's unreserved hour.

"Even down to little levels, we could good spot immoderate snowfall arsenic well, truthful rather a spot of disruption is imaginable by Tuesday morning.

"The week up is apt to enactment acold nationwide, a windy time tomorrow, and past wintertime showers done the week ahead.

"What we tin accidental is that it's going to beryllium precise acold for the for the clip of year.

"There volition beryllium wide overnight frosts, and a fewer locations wherever there's snowfall connected the ground."

Daytime highs for the week up are forecast to beryllium astir 5C - good beneath the mean precocious for this clip of year.

Some parts of Scotland volition scope "only conscionable supra freezing", Morgan added.

There are "likely" to beryllium changes to the upwind warnings successful the coming days.

Some "winter flurries" could beryllium seen successful the southbound of England aboriginal this week.

Despite the nippy conditions, the "whole of the UK" volition bask much sunshine this week.

Morgan said: "There'll beryllium immoderate snowfall showers successful the peripheries of the UK, peculiarly bluish Scotland, and down the eastbound and the westbound coast.

"But if you unrecorded inland and you unrecorded successful the south, there'll beryllium tons of sparkly bluish skies connected the astir days done Tuesday to Friday."