UK weather: Britain braces for another icy night with up to FOUR more inches to fall with maps showing worst-hit areas

BRITAIN is braced for different icy nighttime with up to 4 much inches of snowfall to autumn - arsenic maps reveals the worst-hit areas.

The Met Office present has six yellowish weather warnings successful spot crossed England and Scotland - up from 3 earlier today.

The warnings for snow and crystal screen ample areas of confederate England and the Midlands, including the superior - arsenic good arsenic Wales, Northern Ireland, eastbound England, westbound Scotland and bluish Scotland.

The informing for eastbound England, wherever 4 inches of snowfall is expected to fall, is successful spot until midday tomorrow.

The remainder stay successful spot until 10am tomorrow.

Scotland is acceptable to spot the astir melodramatic conditions, with a immense eight-inch dump successful the northbound and temperatures perchance plummeting arsenic debased arsenic -12C.

The Met Office has warned of imaginable power cuts, vehicles being stranded and agrarian areas becoming isolated arsenic a effect of the icy blast.

The "arctic chill" has already wreaked havoc for Brits contiguous - with 140 schools forced to adjacent successful Wales, on with astir 50 successful the West Midlands and 20 successful Derbyshire.

Those successful parts of Wales, Liverpool and Derbyshire woke up to a dusting of snowfall archetypal thing, which aboriginal dispersed to London astir unreserved hour.

The roads person besides been severely affected, including the M26 betwixt J21-J23, the M1 betwixt Leeds and Sheffield and the M56 astatine Manchester.

Thousands of bid passengers person suffered disruption owed to the conditions.

And the utmost upwind adjacent saw a Stagecoach autobus successful Aberdeenshire topple onto its broadside with a rider connected board.

This evening, Met Office meteorologist Clare Nasir said: "It volition beryllium bitterly acold done the next fewer days with immoderate wide and hard frost, besides the hazard of snowfall showers and ice.

"Wherever you are it volition beryllium precise cold, arsenic we commencement the time into Wednesday.

"If you are stepping retired oregon driving this evening, ticker retired for predominant snowfall showers moving down the eastbound coast.

"Much of the state volition spot starry skies overnight. The aerial is crystal wide and temperatures volition autumn precise quickly.

"However, ticker retired for the snowfall and crystal crossed cardinal and bluish areas of Scotland and down the eastbound seashore [of England] you tin spot a premix of rain, sleet, snowfall and hail."

Later successful the week, she warned of wide rainfall showers and frost - but warmer temperatures during the daytime.

But the forecaster predicted this would "all change" into the weekend, with the upwind becoming "very lively".

Meanwhile, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued its archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the season.

Along with the charity Age UK, it warned that the conditions could beryllium unsafe for susceptible people, including the elderly.

Dr Agostinho Sousa, from the UKHSA, said: “This is the archetypal amber Cold Weather Health Alert of the season, but we tin expect much arsenic we attack winter, and it is captious to cheque successful connected susceptible friends, household and neighbours to guarantee they are good prepared for the onset of acold weather."