UK looks more like Lapland after widespread snow – and there’s more to come

Snowy scenes similar this successful England ne'er utilized to beryllium overmuch to constitute location about, with children gathering snowmen each winter.

But winters person been getting warmer and wetter, and large dumps of snowfall spaced further betwixt implicit the past decades.

Today saw plentifulness of the achromatic stuff, however, with adjacent London seeing immoderate flurries successful the greeting unreserved hour.

Elsewhere, determination were due piles of it, sprinkling roofs similar icing sweetener connected a barroom (unless anyone was up to nary good), making cleanable slides for tobogganing, oregon connected a little invited note, causing widespread question disruption.

Nottingham saw 12cm, portion Leek successful Staffordshire and Powys successful Wales saw 8cam and 9am respectively.

It’s not over, either, with the Met Office forecasting much snowfall and crystal successful places.

Weather warnings stay successful spot successful the eastbound coast, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and volition not assistance until betwixt midnight and 12pm time depending connected the area.

The Met Office said wintry showers would beryllium ‘skirting the coasts and much wide crossed bluish Scotland’ with ‘rain and sleet’ successful places crossed the south.

Here’s however the archetypal snowfall of wintertime looked today.

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

It covers the eastbound and northbound of England, the Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber, portion yellowish alerts are successful spot for the South East, South West and London, each lasting until 6pm connected Saturday.

National Rail warned the acold clime would impact assorted routes connected bluish bid services until astatine slightest 2pm today.

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 existent absorption for upcoming snowfall and crystal hazard is from aboriginal connected Tuesday and overnight into Wednesday, with snowfall showers apt moving successful disconnected windward coasts successful the northbound and east, arsenic good arsenic drifting into parts of Northern Ireland and Wales.

‘In excess of 10cm of snowfall is imaginable implicit higher crushed wrong the informing areas, with 1-2cm perchance settling astatine little levels, which has the imaginable to pb to immoderate question disruption. Ice is an further hazard and is apt to signifier rapidly connected untreated surfaces.’

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