UK snow and ice forces schools to close as Storm Bert to wreak havoc across UK

Storm Bert is acceptable to wreak havok crossed the state - bringing dense rain, beardown winds and disruptive snowfall to parts of the UK passim this weekend, the Met Office says

Several schools have closed their doors contiguous arsenic snow and crystal batter regions crossed the UK up of the accomplishment of Storm Bert.

The tempest is acceptable to wreak havok crossed the country, bringing dense rain, beardown winds and disruptive snowfall to parts of the UK passim this weekend, the Met Office warned. A fig of schools were already forced to adjacent this week arsenic frosty and icy conditions surrounded towns and cities successful the north.

But aggregate stay closed up of this weekend’s chaos. Hawthorns School successful in Bootle, Merseyside, announced connected its website this greeting that it would beryllium "unsafe to open". It said: “Due to mediocre weather conditions, Hawthorns School volition beryllium closed today. Friday 22nd November. We person undertaken a hazard appraisal of the tract and the wider country and consciousness it would beryllium unsafe to open. We convey you for your understanding.”

In Aberdeen, much than 20 schools stay closed today, including Alford Primary School, Alford Academy, Drumblade School, Fintry School, Gordon Schools, and Strathdon School. Ysgol Gynradd Trelogan, a superior schoolhouse successful Wales, has besides closed this greeting owed to it having “no heating” whilst the country tackles freezing weather.

More than 114 schools unopen successful the Highland Council country connected Thursday owed to snow, including Inverness Royal Academy wherever pupils were told their prelim exams planned for the time volition beryllium rescheduled. Almost 40 schools successful Aberdeenshire were besides unopen portion galore others had delayed openings and successful Moray astir 12 were closed and others opened late.

It comes aft much than 100 schools oregon nurseries were closed successful Scotland connected Wednesday due to the fact that of the weather. South of the border, 89 schools were unopen successful Devon connected Thursday, 18 successful Dorset and 60 successful Cornwall, portion successful Wales astir 10 were closed successful Conwy, 18 successful Denbighshire and 2 successful Wrexham.

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Holley said: “Storm Bert marks a displacement to overmuch milder aerial and wintry hazards volition gradually diminish done the weekend, but dense snowfall is expected crossed parts of bluish England and Scotland for a clip connected Saturday, particularly implicit higher ground, and warnings are successful place.

“Heavy rainfall done Saturday and Sunday, particularly successful confederate and occidental parts of the UK, volition besides bring impacts for immoderate with a fig of warnings successful place. We expect 50-75 mm of rainfall rather wide wrong the informing areas, but successful excess of 100 mm is imaginable implicit precocious crushed successful parts of Wales and southwest England.”

“In addition, accelerated melting of lying snowfall implicit the play and periods of beardown winds are apt to exacerbate impacts and bring the imaginable for question disruption, arsenic good arsenic flooding for some.”