Met Office snow map shows exactly where and when ten-hour snow warning is in place

A informing for snowfall has been enactment retired for areas of the southbound westbound arsenic flurries could autumn for 10 hours today, covering icy roads and making them unsafe for unaware drivers

Millions of Brits are nether a ten hr informing for snowfall this morning, arsenic radical are warned to instrumentality attraction connected perchance icy roads.

Several yellowish Met Office warnings for snowfall are successful spot contiguous for immense swathes of the country, including successful the southbound westbound and areas of Scotland. Separate warnings are besides successful spot for the information of crystal successful the Midlands, the East and the North West of England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

The snowfall informing successful the southbound westbound is successful spot betwixt 5am and 3pm. It reads: “A spell of rainfall and snowfall is expected to make crossed southwest England aboriginal connected Thursday. Accumulating snowfall is astir apt implicit higher crushed supra 200 metres wherever 2-5 cm is probable. There is simply a accidental that akin accumulations hap astatine little levels successful places. Higher parts of Dartmoor could spot 5-10 cm.

“There is apt to beryllium a hazard of crystal processing arsenic skies wide into Thursday night. Snowy, wintry weather tin origin delays and marque driving conditions dangerous. Keep yourself and others harmless by readying your route, giving yourself other clip for your journey.”

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Matthew Lehnert said: “A northerly airflow volition proceed to provender snowfall showers into Scotland implicit the adjacent fewer days, with this reaching little levels astatine times and bringing the imaginable for immoderate question disruption.

“On Thursday, a substance of snow, sleet and rainfall is apt to impact the southwest which could perchance bring disruption. It’s apt precocious crushed successful the country volition spot snow, with a substance of conditions apt astatine little levels. 2-5cm of snowfall is imaginable successful places astatine little levels, with astir 10cm imaginable implicit higher parts of Dartmoor.

The crystal warnings travel into effect aboriginal successful the day, from 4pm and overnight into Thursday. It reads: “Icy stretches are expected to signifier connected untreated surfaces during Wednesday evening and overnight into Thursday arsenic temperatures driblet beneath freezing. A fewer sleet oregon snowfall showers are besides apt astatine times, peculiarly adjacent to coasts.”

RAC Breakdown spokesperson Alice Simpson added: "The archetypal sensation of wintertime means drivers are abruptly contending with the immoderate of the worst roadworthy conditions we’ve seen each year. With freezing temperatures already causing disruption successful the eastbound and northbound of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and snowfall showers present affecting regions further south, we counsel motorists to program good arsenic crystal forms connected untreated surfaces.”

Areas affected by the yellowish informing for snowfall (5am-3pm)

South West England

• Cornwall

• Devon

• Dorset

• Plymouth

• Somerset

Areas affected by the yellowish informing for crystal (4pm-noon Thursday)

Central, Tayside & Fife

• Angus

• Perth and Kinross

• Stirling

East Midlands

• Derbyshire

• Lincolnshire

East of England

• Norfolk

• Suffolk

Grampian

• Aberdeen

• Aberdeenshire

• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Highland

North East England

• Redcar and Cleveland

North West England

• Blackburn with Darwen

• Blackpool

• Cheshire East

• Cheshire West and Chester

• Cumbria

• Greater Manchester

• Halton

• Lancashire

• Merseyside

• Warrington

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim

• County Armagh

• County Down

• County Londonderry

• County Tyrone

SW Scotland, Lothian Borders

• Dumfries and Galloway

Strathclyde

• Argyll and Bute

• East Ayrshire

• Inverclyde

• North Ayrshire

• Renfrewshire

• South Ayrshire

• West Dunbartonshire

Wales

• Conwy

• Denbighshire

• Flintshire

• Gwynedd

• Isle of Anglesey

• Powys

• Wrexham

West Midlands

• Shropshire

• Staffordshire

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Telford and Wrekin

• West Midlands Conurbation

Yorkshire & Humber

• East Riding of Yorkshire

• Kingston upon Hull

• North East Lincolnshire

• North Yorkshire

Areas affected by the yellowish informing for crystal and snowfall (10am-noon Thursday)

Grampian

• Aberdeenshire

• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Na h-Eileanan Siar

• Highland

Orkney & Shetland

• Orkney Islands

• Shetland Islands

Strathclyde

• Argyll and Bute

• North Ayrshire