Published On: Wed, Jan 1st, 2025

Met Office issues yellow warning for snow covering almost all of England | Weather | News


The Met Office has issued a 44-hour yellow warning for large swathes of the country as Britain prepares to be hit by heavy snow this weekend.

Temperatures are expected to plunge to -10C (14F). The Met Office said up to 1ft of snow could fall between 12pm on Saturday and 9am on Monday, with much of England and almost all of Wales warned.

The Met Office warns of possible power cuts with services such as mobile phone coverage possibly impacted. There is also a “slight” chance some rural communities could be cut off.

There is also a chance of road travel delays as some vehicles and passengers become stranded. Delays or cancellations to rail and air travel are possible, too.

The forecaster said outbreaks of rain spreading northeastwards later on Saturday and overnight into Sunday will likely be preceded by a spell of snow on its northern flank.

It added: “Whilst there is a fair bit of uncertainty as to how far north this may spread, and how long any snow will last, significant accumulations of snow are possible, especially (but not exclusively) on hills.

“Currently, parts of the Midlands, Wales and northern England are most at risk of disruption, where 5cm or more could accumulate fairly widely, with perhaps as much as 20-30 cm over the high ground of Wales and/or the Pennines.

“This, accompanied by strengthening winds, may lead to drifting of lying snow.”

In addition, as milder air attempts to move northwards into southern and central areas, Snow could turn to freezing rain, adding to the risk of ice, as milder air tries to push into southern and central parts of the UK.

The Met Office said if milder air spreads more northwards, any snow in southern parts of the warning area may be relatively short-lived before turning to rain.

It added: “Given the uncertainties, it is quite likely this warning area and start/end times will be refined over the coming days as confidence increases in areas most likely to be impacted.”

The regions and local authorities affected by the warning are:

Falkirk

Derby

Derbyshire

Leicester

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

Rutland

Bedford

Cambridgeshire

Central Bedfordshire

Essex

Hertfordshire

Luton

Norfolk

Peterborough

Southend-on-Sea

Suffolk

Thurrock

Bracknell Forest

Buckinghamshire

East Sussex

Greater London

Hampshire

Kent

Medway

Milton Keynes

Oxfordshire

Reading

Slough

Surrey

West Berkshire

West Sussex

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Darlington

Durham

Gateshead

Middlesbrough

Newcastle upon Tyne

Northumberland

Redcar and Cleveland

Stockton-on-Tees

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Cumbria

Greater Manchester

Halton

Lancashire

Merseyside

Warrington

Dumfries and Galloway

East Lothian

Edinburgh

Midlothian Council

Scottish Borders

West Lothian

Bath and North East Somerset

Bristol

Devon

Dorset

Gloucestershire

North Somerset

Somerset

South Gloucestershire

Swindon

Wiltshire

Strathclyde

North Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire

Blaenau Gwent

Bridgend

Caerphilly

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Gwynedd

Isle of Anglesey

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Newport

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Torfaen

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham

West Midlands

Herefordshire

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Telford and Wrekin

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire & Humber

East Riding of Yorkshire

North Lincolnshire

North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

York



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