UK weather: Met Office forecasts ice cold -4C Tuesday as snow expected across Britain

Temperatures are acceptable to driblet contiguous to arsenic debased arsenic -4 successful immoderate places arsenic yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal stay successful spot successful England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

Brits are acceptable to shiver successful freezing temperatures this greeting arsenic the mercury dips to -4C successful immoderate parts of the country.

An Arctic maritime airmass already implicit bluish Britain is acceptable to dispersed southbound contiguous amid yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal for millions of people. Covering areas of England specified arsenic the Midlands, North West and Yorkshire, radical successful Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland volition shiver successful the coming days.

And it each starts overnight wherever the mercury volition dip to -4 successful occidental Scotland. In the southbound westbound of England, however, temperatures volition scope a balmy 7C.

Dan Suri, Chief Meteorologist astatine the Met Office, said: “The associated frontal system, marking the bound betwixt acold aerial successful the northbound and milder conditions to the south, volition bring disruptive snowfall to immoderate areas betwixt Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

“This is apt to coincide with unreserved hour, starring to disruption to immoderate transport routes crossed a cardinal swathe of the UK connected Tuesday morning. It volition besides beryllium windy successful the acold south. Updates to the warnings passim the week are likely, truthful it is important to enactment up to day with the latest forecast.”

It is feared crystal could signifier connected roads connected Tuesday arsenic rain, sleet and snowfall clears. Experts person warned radical to trim velocity erstwhile driving this morning.

National Highways Severe Weather Resilience Manager, Darren Clark said: “Gritters volition beryllium retired treating our roads astir the timepiece erstwhile crystal oregon snowfall is forecast, but it is inactive important to thrust to the conditions.

“Keep your region and trim your speed, due to the fact that adjacent successful conditions that look normal, and wherever the snowfall is not settling, it tin beryllium slippery if crystal patches person formed, oregon wherever caller grit has not been worked into the carriageway. Drivers should program their journeys, show upwind reports and battalion a snowfall kit of blankets, food, h2o and a shovel.”

The astir apt script contiguous is for astir of the snowfall to accumulate connected hills, with 5 to 10cm imaginable supra 200 metres and arsenic overmuch arsenic 15 to 20 cm supra 300 metres. Some snowfall volition settee to little levels, wherever 5 to 10 cm would beryllium overmuch much disruptive - this remains uncertain, but seems astir apt crossed parts of Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

Areas affected by today's yellowish informing for crystal and snow

England

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

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

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim

• County Armagh

• County Down

• County Fermanagh

• County Londonderry

• County Tyrone

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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

Wales

• Conwy

• Denbighshire

• Flintshire

• Gwynedd

• Powys

• Wrexham