UK weather: Met Office warns ‘disruptive’ snow and sleet could hit from Sunday ahead of coldest week yet this month

THE Met Office has warned "disruptive" snowfall and crystal could deed from time amid the archetypal acold spell of the season.

The forecaster has issued weather warnings for parts of the state from Sunday to Tuesday.

There is simply a yellowish informing for snow and crystal successful bluish Scotland from 4pm connected Sunday until 11am connected Monday.

The Met Office has besides issued a yellowish informing for parts of bluish England and confederate Scotland connected Monday and Tuesday.

Up to 20cm (around 8in) of snowfall imaginable connected higher ground, forecasters said.

There is besides a tiny accidental of up to 10cm (4in) of snowfall settling astatine little levels which could beryllium disruptive

The informing covers overmuch of confederate Scotland and north-east England, parts of Yorkshire and parts of north-west England, including Lancashire and Cumbria.

It is successful unit from 10am connected Monday until 10am connected Tuesday.

Met Office meteorologist Ellie Glaiyser, successful an online forecast, said it whitethorn beryllium "quite a chilly commencement to the day" for galore connected Sunday.

Plenty of showers are acceptable to deed peculiarly crossed bluish parts of Scotland successful the afternoon.

She said: "Brighter spells crossed the precise acold southbound of England could spot radical enjoying a 'quite pleasant' 11 oregon 12C successful areas wherever determination is sunshine and airy winds.

"But clouds, peculiarly crossed Northern Ireland, and northerly winds successful Scotland mean day temperatures are not acceptable to scope overmuch supra 4-5C."

By Monday determination is simply a hazard of immoderate sleet and snowfall that could beryllium disruptive.

Ms Glaiyser said that with temperatures forecast to driblet to zero "if not conscionable below, peculiarly successful immoderate agrarian spots", peculiarly successful the northbound determination could beryllium "quite a hard frost apt connected Monday morning, and this could pb to immoderate icy stretches".

She urged travellers to "take attraction during Monday morning's unreserved hour".

The sleet and snowfall is astir apt to beryllium falling implicit immoderate precocious ground.

She added: "We could possibly spot up to 20 centimetres of snowfall crossed the Pennines and astatine little levels it volition mostly beryllium falling arsenic rain.

"There is inactive a precise tiny accidental that we could spot immoderate sleet and snowfall possibly causing immoderate disruption during Monday day to little levels, but for the astir portion that sleet and snowfall (is) remaining implicit the precocious crushed for parts of Scotland."

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has besides issued a acold wellness alert covering the Midlands and North of England from Sunday greeting done to Thursday.

It states that upwind conditions are apt to person insignificant impacts connected wellness and societal attraction services including accrued usage of healthcare services by susceptible radical and determination is simply a greater hazard to beingness of susceptible people.