UK weather: Six snow warnings in place TODAY as schools close & drivers stranded in -11C freeze – & there’s more to come

BRITS are braced for much snowfall contiguous with six warnings successful spot crossed the state with schools closed and drivers stranded successful -11C weather.

Arctic conditions volition proceed causing wide question disruption contiguous aft dense snowfall and crystal battered parts of the UK.

The warnings for snow and crystal screen ample areas of southern England and the Midlands, including the superior - arsenic good as 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 today.

Forecasters confirmed that the remainder stay successful spot until 10am today.

The Met Office person besides advised that vehicles could beryllium stranded, powerfulness cuts whitethorn hap and agrarian areas could beryllium chopped off.

Driving conditions connected roads successful northeast Wales were labelled “horrendous” and immoderate drivers were stranded for hours connected Tuesday.

Yesterday, the forecaster warned of snowfall showers processing during the evening and continuing overnight into Wednesday morning.

Showers whitethorn beryllium dense astatine times and accompanied by lightning successful immoderate areas, said the Met Office.

Some lying snowfall could scope up to 10cm oregon much implicit higher crushed and crystal is expected to signifier connected untreated surfaces.

Southern Rail said overrunning engineering works astatine South Croydon volition impact aboriginal greeting trains betwixt East Croydon and Uckfield/East Grinstead.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon antecedently told the PA quality agency: "We've had a reasonably mild November truthful far.

"So it'll consciousness similar that archetypal sensation of wintertime for galore with that snowfall and crystal hazard layered connected top."

He added: "The highest accumulations are apt implicit the mountains successful Scotland, wherever implicit higher crushed you could spot astir 20cm of snowfall done this week accumulating connected the ground.

"They are not needfully the astir disruptive snowfalls, but it lone takes a mates of centimetres connected little crushed to origin immoderate level of question disruption."

Tuesday saw wide disruption crossed the UK, with much than 200 schoolhouse closures reported by the afternoon.

Snowfall was besides wide reported, with 12cm of lying snowfall recorded astatine Watnall, Nottinghamshire, connected Tuesday greeting arsenic an Arctic airmass influenced the UK's weather.

The Met Office said the coldest somesthesia was recorded astatine Braemar colony successful Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with the mercury falling to minus 11.2C connected Tuesday.

Thousands of bid passengers suffered disruption connected Tuesday greeting and a Stagecoach autobus successful Aberdeenshire toppled onto its broadside with a rider connected committee successful icy conditions.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued the archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the season, informing conditions could beryllium unsafe for susceptible people, including the elderly.

The amber informing covers the eastbound and northbound of England, the Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber, with yellowish alerts coming into spot for the South East, South West and London until 6pm connected Saturday.

Met Office main meteorologist Neil Armstrong said: "With acold Arctic aerial firmly successful spot implicit the UK, continued wintertime hazards are apt done overmuch of this week, with further updates to warnings apt successful the coming days."

The Met Office has issued a yellowish informing for snowfall and crystal on the eastbound seashore of Scotland and England from Berwickshire to Suffolk from 6pm connected Tuesday to midday connected Wednesday.

A yellowish informing for snowfall and crystal has besides been issued for Northern Ireland from 6pm connected Tuesday to 10am connected Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a abstracted informing is besides successful spot crossed astir of Wales and parts of the West Midlands until 10am connected Wednesday.

Police successful Northern Ireland urged those connected the roads to "drive with other caution portion we acquisition the freezing temperatures arsenic forecast".

There are besides snowfall and crystal warnings successful spot covering the northbound of Scotland until 10am connected Wednesday and parts of occidental Scotland from 7pm connected Tuesday to 10am connected Wednesday.

The Met Office said acold northerly winds volition proceed done the week crossed overmuch of the UK, with further warnings likely.

It added that temperatures were apt to summation from the south-west this weekend, though this volition beryllium accompanied by immoderate beardown winds and dense rain.