New ice warning issued after snow closes schools and disrupts travel

A caller crystal informing has been issued aft snowy conditions forced the closure of much than 200 schools and led to wide question disruption.

The Met Office has enactment successful spot a yellowish informing for crystal for overmuch of confederate England, the Midlands and eastbound Wales from 5pm connected Tuesday to 10am connected Wednesday.

Several different warnings for snowfall and crystal are successful unit crossed the UK, with the Met Office advising that vehicles could beryllium stranded, powerfulness cuts whitethorn hap and agrarian areas could beryllium chopped off.

By Tuesday afternoon, much than 200 schoolhouse closures had been reported, with astir 140 recorded successful Wales.

Snowfall was besides wide reported, with 12cm of lying snowfall recorded astatine Watnall, Nottinghamshire connected Tuesday greeting arsenic an Arctic airmass influenced the UK’s weather.

Thousands of bid passengers suffered disruption owed to the upwind connected Tuesday morning.

By 11am connected Tuesday, immoderate 64 retired of a full of 120 services planned by East Midlands Railway were cancelled oregon delayed by astatine slightest fractional an hour, according to the trains.im punctuality and reliability website.

Monday nighttime saw sub-zero temperatures for overmuch of the UK, reaching arsenic debased arsenic -11.2C astatine Braemar successful Aberdeenshire.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said temperatures could driblet to -12C successful agrarian parts of Scotland and -7C successful agrarian parts of Wales connected Wednesday night.

Mr Dixon told the PA quality agency: “We’ve had a reasonably mild November truthful far.

“So it’ll consciousness similar that archetypal sensation of wintertime for galore with that snowfall and crystal hazard layered connected top.”

He added: “The highest accumulations are apt implicit the mountains successful Scotland, wherever implicit higher crushed you could spot astir 20cm of snowfall done this week accumulating connected the ground.

“They are not needfully the astir disruptive snowfalls, but it lone takes a mates of centimetres connected little crushed to origin immoderate level of question disruption.”

A Stagecoach autobus successful Aberdeenshire toppled onto its broadside with a rider connected committee successful icy conditions connected Tuesday greeting successful the New Leeds area.

A spokesperson for Stagecoach North Scotland said: “We tin corroborate that 1 of our vehicles operating connected work X67 has been progressive successful an incidental astatine New Leeds this greeting owed to crystal connected the road.

“One rider was connected board, and determination were nary injuries.”

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

The amber informing covers the eastbound and northbound of England, the Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber, with yellowish alerts coming into spot for the South East, South West and London until 6pm connected Saturday.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Neil Armstrong said: “With acold Arctic aerial firmly successful spot implicit the UK, continued wintertime hazards are apt done overmuch of this week, with further updates to warnings apt successful the coming days.”

The Met Office has issued a yellowish informing for snowfall and crystal on the eastbound seashore of Scotland and England from Berwickshire to Suffolk from 6pm connected Tuesday to midday connected Wednesday.

A yellowish informing for snowfall and crystal covering Northern Ireland has besides been issued from 6pm connected Tuesday to 10am connected Wednesday.

There are besides snowfall and crystal warnings successful spot covering the northbound of Scotland until 10am connected Wednesday and overmuch of cardinal and South Wales until 11.59pm connected Tuesday.

A abstracted snowfall and crystal informing for overmuch of cardinal and northbound Wales is successful spot from midnight until midday connected Wednesday.

The Met Office said acold northerly winds volition proceed done the week crossed overmuch of the UK, with further warnings likely.

It added that temperatures were apt to summation from the south-west this weekend, though this volition beryllium accompanied by immoderate beardown winds and dense rain.

The Alzheimer’s Society warned that acold upwind tin beryllium “particularly challenging” for radical with dementia.

“Colder temperatures tin beryllium hard for a idiosyncratic with dementia to set to, and they whitethorn not ever beryllium capable to pass that they are acold – oregon they whitethorn not adjacent recognise it themselves,” the foundation said.

Another charity, Asthma + Lung UK, urged those with lung conditions to beryllium “extra careful”.

The foundation warned acold upwind tin trigger perchance life-threatening asthma attacks oregon “flare-ups” for radical with different lung conditions.