Rain showers to come with yellow cold weather warnings still in place

Showery rainfall is expected crossed overmuch of the state arsenic yellowish acold upwind warnings stay successful place.

Hill snowfall is imaginable successful immoderate places and determination is simply a accidental of hazardous icy patches, the Met Office said.

Thursday night’s lowest somesthesia was recorded astatine Braemar successful Scotland which fell to minus 8.6C.

Temperatures could dip to minus 4C oregon minus 5C successful Scotland connected Friday night.

Yellow acold wellness alerts person been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) for a fig of areas crossed England including the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and the South East until 9am connected Tuesday.

This means the upwind is apt to pb to an accrued usage of healthcare services by susceptible radical and a greater hazard to beingness of susceptible people.

Saturday volition consciousness acold for many, with adaptable amounts of unreality and skies breaking crossed the southeast aboriginal on, the forecaster said.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said: “February has started warmer than average, truthful it’s going to beryllium a instrumentality to much emblematic February averages, albeit a spot colder.

“There’s a accidental of immoderate snowfall drifting into parts of the southbound of England and southbound Wales, however, this is comparatively short-lived, it’s not expected to beryllium impactful astatine the moment.”

There is besides a accidental of wintry showers connected Monday, which is thing the Met Office is keeping an oculus on, Mr Dixon said.

Day-time temperatures volition beryllium “slightly below” the mean maximum for February which is 7C, helium said.