UK snow maps reveal exact areas facing 3cm per hour in Arctic blast later this week

More unsettled upwind conditions are expected adjacent week and parts of the state volition acquisition up to 3cm of snowfall successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, according to the latest maps

The latest upwind maps amusement which areas volition beryllium facing up to 3cm of snow per hr arsenic an Arctic blast continues hitting the state adjacent week.

Storm Bert has deed the state this play - but adjacent week, the weather volition proceed to beryllium unsettled, with acold temperatures connected the cards. One of the astir up-to-date maps shows that astatine 6am connected Wednesday, November 27, immoderate areas volition proceed to acquisition dense snowfall.

Parts of bluish England and the West Midlands volition acquisition betwixt 1 and 3 cm of snowfall per hr arsenic the acold upwind continues. The Met Office said temperatures volition beryllium "trending down" adjacent week with much unsettled upwind connected the mode pursuing a play of dense rain, snow, beardown winds and flooding.

The Met Office said portion Storm Bert volition commencement clearing from Monday, beardown winds and showers are successful the forecast. However, beardown winds mean it volition consciousness alternatively cold, forecasters added. Today, 3 radical died arsenic a effect of Storm Bert, which deed the state with dense show, winds and torrential rain.

A 34-year-old antheral died aft his car "spun disconnected the road" successful icy conditions and ploughed into a partition successful Shipley, West Yorkshire, conscionable earlier 1am. Hours aboriginal successful a abstracted incident, a 2nd antheral aged successful his 60s was killed erstwhile a histrion fell onto his conveyance successful Hampshire soon aft 7.45am.

Then, astatine astir 8.20am a antheral died erstwhile a metallic Toyota Corolla and a acheronian grey Hyundai i30 Active crashed connected the A45 adjacent Flore successful Nottinghamshire. Police person present issued an appeal for witnesses.

Tens of thousands of homes were near without powerfulness owed to the storm, with 4,000 homes affected successful the Midlands, south-west England and South Wales and 27,000 customers affected successful the North East, Yorkshire and bluish Lincolnshire. Ross Easton, of Energy Networks Association (ENA) - which represents the UK's powerfulness web operators, said: "There are a fewer localised weather-related powerfulness cuts successful parts of Britain this morning. However, for astir parts of the state the terrible upwind hasn't yet had a important impact.

"Forecasters are describing this arsenic a 'multi-hazard event' with the worst of the upwind yet to arrive, and truthful our members person other engineers and interaction centre teams available, and power rooms are monitoring the tempest intimately arsenic it develops." More than 100 flood alerts are successful spot crossed the UK.

The Environment Agency (EA) has issued much than a twelve reddish warnings meaning flooding is expected successful the northbound westbound of England, including for the M61 betwixt Manchester and Preston. The Met Office forecasts dense rainfall processing overnight and into Sunday for south-west and confederate England, stretching from Oxford to Truro.

The yellowish informing is successful spot from 6am connected Saturday until 11.45pm connected Sunday and up to 70mm of rainfall could autumn during this time. There is simply a accidental that immoderate places implicit Dartmoor could spot 100-150mm of rainfall, the nationalist upwind work said.

Strong winds are acceptable to origin "dangerous coastal conditions", the Met Office said, and a yellowish upwind informing is successful spot until 9pm connected Sunday for confederate England and parts of Wales. The strongest gust truthful acold during the tempest was 82mph recorded successful Capel Curig, northbound Wales.

UK 5 time upwind forecast

This Evening and Tonight:

Widely cloudy with further spells of dense rain, particularly crossed England and Wales. Much milder though than of precocious with temperatures continuing to emergence overnight. Windy with coastal gales, terrible astatine times, continuing overnight.

Sunday:

Band of rainfall crossed England and Wales moving precise dilatory east, dense astatine times. Bright spells elsewhere with predominant showers successful the northwest. Windy, particularly successful the southbound and northwest.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Sunny spells and showers, blustery astatine times though becoming infrequent by Tuesday. Unsettled connected Wednesday, with persistent rainfall and beardown winds spreading northeast crossed England and Wales. Temperatures trending down.