UK snow warning today: Full list of areas facing travel chaos and school closures

The UK has braced for “disruptive snow”, crystal and acold temperatures aft the Met Office issued a flurry of yellowish upwind warnings crossed Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England

Brits are tackling powerfulness cuts and question chaos with 'impassable' roads aft an Arctic blast covered parts of the UK overnight.

The UK braced for “disruptive snow”, crystal and acold temperatures yesterday aft the Met Office issued a flurry of yellowish weather warnings crossed Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Up to 20 centimetres of snowfall was expected to accumulate successful the worst affected areas successful the country’s “first sensation of winter”, according to the forecaster.

The yellowish warnings are successful spot until 10 americium contiguous - nevertheless respective areas person been extended until 10am tomorrow.

Within the affected areas, the informing states that determination is simply a accidental of powerfulness cuts, disruption to roadworthy and nationalist transport and the hazard of communities being chopped disconnected arsenic a result, the upwind work said.

"An country of snowfall whitethorn bring disruption to a cardinal swathe of the UK during Monday nighttime and Tuesday morning," it states.

Snow and hail showers were predicted to impact bluish parts of Scotland astatine times, becoming heavier and much predominant connected Monday night, done overmuch of Tuesday and past overnight into Wednesday morning. Predicting the downpour, the work said: "2 to 5 cm of snowfall is apt to accumulate rather widely, with up to 10 cm successful immoderate places by the extremity of Tuesday, and possibly 15 to 20 cm accumulating supra 300 metres."

The Met Office further warned Brits that the snowy, wintry upwind tin origin delays and marque driving conditions dangerous. They added that drivers should support themselves and others harmless by "planning your route, checking for delays and roadworthy closures, and amending your question plans if necessary.

"People header amended erstwhile they person prepared successful beforehand for the hazard of powerfulness cuts oregon being chopped disconnected from services and amenities owed to the snow. It’s casual to do; see gathering torches and batteries, a mobile telephone powerfulness battalion and different indispensable items."

Schools up and down the state are besides acceptable to adjacent arsenic the Met Office warns of unsafe conditions caused by the arctic snowfall blast.

You tin cheque if schools person closed successful your country connected the UK authorities website here.

Here is simply a afloat database of the regions and section authorities affected by the yellowish informing for crystal moving until 10am tomorrow.

Regions and section authorities affected:

Central, Tayside & Fife

• Angus
• Perth and Kinross

Grampian

• Aberdeen
• Aberdeenshire
• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Na h-Eileanan Siar
• Highland

Orkney & Shetland

• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

And present is simply a afloat database of the regions affected until 10am today:

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim
• County Armagh
• County Down
• County Fermanagh
• County Londonderry
• County Tyrone

East Midlands

• Derby
• Derbyshire
• Leicester
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Nottingham
• Nottinghamshire
• Rutland

North West England

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Cheshire East
• Cheshire West and Chester
• Greater Manchester
• Halton
• Lancashire
• Merseyside
• Warrington

Wales

• Conwy
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Gwynedd
• Powys
• Wrexham

West Midlands

• Herefordshire
• Shropshire
• Staffordshire
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Telford and Wrekin
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands Conurbation

Yorkshire & Humber

• East Riding of Yorkshire
• North East Lincolnshire
• North Lincolnshire
• North Yorkshire
• South Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire
• York