UK weather: Snow to hit Britain from TODAY ahead of icy commuter disruption tomorrow – will your area be affected?

SNOW is forecasted to deed the UK today, with Brits facing disruption to their commute arsenic crystal upwind warnings are issued.

The Met Office has revealed that snowfall could autumn successful places successful the North today.

Snow and crystal yellowish warnings person been issued for the northbound of Scotland with residents successful Inverness being told to look retired for icy patches connected immoderate roads.

Showers successful the northbound are expected to crook wintery passim the time with hail, sleet and snowfall apt to fall.

Despite minimal snowfall expected to settee during the day, the Met Office has forecasted 1 to 3cm of snowfall to accumulate successful immoderate areas overnight.

They added that this could summation to a whopping 5 to 10cm successful immoderate places by tomorrow, which could beryllium disruptive.

The Met Office has besides issued different yellowish upwind informing for overmuch of the northbound and Midlands of England, spanning from 7pm connected Monday to 10 americium Tuesday.

Brits successful these areas could look imaginable disruptions to their commute, with the Met Office urging radical to program ahead.

From Monday, the Met Office has predicted that 15 to 20cm of snowfall could settee successful areas implicit 300 meters, with a accidental it could settee astatine little levels wrong the informing area, perchance causing large disruption.

Craig Snell, Senior Operational Meteorologist astatine Met Office, said: "Across Northern England and Southern Scotland it volition crook progressively to snowfall chiefly crossed the precocious levels but it whitethorn good crook to snowfall astatine little levels from clip to time.

"We bash person a informing unit from Monday into parts of Tuesday excessively truthful if you bash person question plans present bash support alert to the forecast successful the coming days."

Chief Meteorologist, Andy Page, added: "We person issued yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal arsenic acold upwind moves successful from the north.

"This brings snowfall showers and immoderate crystal to parts of Scotland connected Sunday night, and past the imaginable for a spell of snowfall to pb to disruption to immoderate transport routes crossed a cardinal swathe of the UK connected Tuesday morning.

"Gusty winds successful the eastbound besides stay a imaginable hazard. Updates to the warnings for wintry hazards are apt truthful it is important to enactment up to day with the latest forecast."

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

Pointing to a UK map, she said: "It's this country of debased unit that moves successful from the northwest arsenic we spell done Sunday and into Monday that's inactive causing america rather a fewer headaches.

"It's that bound of acold and lukewarm air, that upwind front, conscionable bringing a hazard of immoderate sleet and snowfall that could beryllium disruptive."

Ms Glaiyser explained astir of it would stay implicit "high ground" but warned immoderate could inactive deed connected little levels.

"What we bash cognize with confidence... is that arsenic we spell done Monday evening and into Tuesday that country of debased unit pushes distant towards the East and towards the continent.

"Leaving america northerly winds crossed overmuch of the UK into the mediate of the week, truthful turning wide overmuch colder than we've seen done the commencement of November."

Ms Glaiyser said that temperatures are forecast to driblet to zero "particularly successful immoderate agrarian spots",

She warned this could origin "quite a hard frost apt connected Monday morning, and this could pb to immoderate icy stretches".

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

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.