More snow to fall over the weekend as Met Office issues new warnings

More snowfall is acceptable to autumn implicit the play with the Met Office issuing respective caller upwind warnings. 

A yellowish informing for crystal with sleet oregon snowfall showers is successful spot for astir of Scotland, the East and West Midlands, the east, northeast and northwest of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Yorkshire until Thursday morning.

A 2nd yellowish upwind informing for predominant snowfall showers and imaginable hail is successful spot successful galore parts of northbound and westbound Scotland until midday connected Thursday.

Up to 10cm of snowfall is forecast successful immoderate parts of northwest Scotland, with higher crushed seeing up to 20cm, the Met Office said.

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Parts of southwest England person besides received a abstracted yellowish informing for snowfall betwixt 5am and 3pm connected Thursday, with up to 10cm predicted successful higher parts of Dartmoor.

Heavy snowfall is besides expected connected Saturday followed by a "rapid thaw" and rainfall connected Saturday nighttime successful northeast and northwest England, the West Midlands, Yorkshire, and overmuch of Scotland.

The Met Office has issued a yellowish informing for this upwind lawsuit and said determination is simply a accidental floodwater could origin information to life, and effect successful question disruption and immoderate agrarian communities to beryllium chopped off.

New yellowish warnings for rainfall person besides been published implicit the play for southwest England and Wales.

Met Office spokesperson Andrea Bishop said: "A heavy country of debased unit is expected to bring a spell of prolonged and, astatine times, dense rainfall crossed a ample portion of the UK this weekend.

"Across southwest England, rainfall is expected to make during Saturday greeting with heavier rainfall apt aboriginal successful the time and overnight into aboriginal Sunday morning.

"Fifty to 75mm of rainfall is expected to autumn reasonably wide during this clip with a accidental that immoderate places implicit Dartmoor could spot 100 to 125mm. Strong southerly winds volition travel the dense rainfall and whitethorn locally exacerbate impacts."

A Met Office spokesperson added connected Wednesday morning: "Rain, snowfall and crystal proceed to beryllium imaginable hazards done this week arsenic an Arctic aerial wide continues to power the UK's weather, bringing imaginable ongoing disruption for some.

"It volition beryllium feeling precise acold for most, with daytime temperatures successful the debased azygous figures, with a upwind chill meaning it volition beryllium feeling adjacent cooler."

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More than 100 schools oregon nurseries are closed successful Scotland today, aft days of freezing conditions.

The lowest somesthesia recorded connected Tuesday nighttime was minus 7.5C (19F) successful Warcop, Cumbria.

The RAC said it has seen a crisp emergence successful conveyance breakdowns arsenic drivers' batteries failed connected Wednesday greeting owed to acold weather.

The AA has besides predicted "a large summation successful workload" owed to sub-zero temperatures, snowfall and ice, and it urged drivers to cheque forecasts earlier travelling and to bash truthful with "extreme caution" successful the hardest-hit areas.

RAC spokesperson Rod Dennis called connected motorists to decently de-ice vehicles and guarantee the full windscreen is clear.

The UK Health Security Agency has besides issued the archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the season, informing conditions could beryllium unsafe for susceptible people, including the elderly.