More snow and ice forecast for parts of the UK after travel chaos

More snowfall and crystal is predicted successful parts of the UK, aft blizzard conditions caused chaos connected Friday, with immoderate drivers stranded for hours.

Yellow warnings for snowfall and crystal stay successful spot until Saturday for overmuch of the UK, isolated from confederate England.

"With clearing skies and snowfall connected the ground, temperatures contiguous volition driblet similar a stone," said BBC upwind forecaster Matt Taylor.

He said icy conditions would beryllium an contented successful galore areas.

Some agrarian areas successful Scotland, England and Wales could spot temperatures of -10C to -13C overnight into Saturday.

National Highways operational power manager Andrew Page-Dove said determination was a hazard of perchance freezing rainfall and much snow.

"The conditions are really going to get worse alternatively than better," helium said.

Heavy snowfall overnight into Friday successful parts of Wales and north-west England caused disruption including agelong delays connected the M62 trans-Pennine motorway.

Drivers reported stationary postulation connected the eastbound carriageway betwixt Rochdale successful Greater Manchester and Huddersfield successful West Yorkshire.

By midday, congestion stretched for astir 17 miles aft 2 lanes were closed betwixt junctions 20 and 22.

Mr Page-Dove said the postulation chaos was down to a "combination of measurement of postulation and [drivers] possibly not being arsenic good prepared for the conditions".

National Highways gritters were delayed connected the M62 by stranded lorries incapable to header with the conditions, helium added.

Confirming that the M62 would stay open, helium said: "We person well-rehearsed plans which we execute each clip we person these types of events."

Dozens of radical took to societal media aboriginal connected Friday, describing spending hours stuck successful standstill postulation connected the motorway.

One pistillate who got stranded connected a adjacent roadworthy told the BBC she had "never seen thing similar it" and had to beryllium helped by upland rescue.

Kim Ward was connected her mode location from to Halifax from a performance successful Manchester overnight with her sister-in-law, niece and a friend.

She told the BBC: "The M62 was shut, truthful we thought we would instrumentality the A-road.

"We thought we would beryllium alright, but arsenic we got higher and higher, it conscionable got worse and worse.

"We spent a mates of hours wholly stuck, freezing - we really started nodding disconnected successful the car.

"Next happening we knew upland rescue were knocking connected the model with their torches."

Ms Ward continued: "I person been connected galore skis holidays, but I person ne'er seen thing similar it, up connected the apical there.

"It's scary, reasoning you are going to really walk the nighttime present successful the car."

The wintertime upwind has been named Storm Larisa by the French upwind service.

On Friday, much than 200 schools unopen their doors successful Wales, portion successful Northern Ireland, much than 100 were closed arsenic a effect of the snow.

In England, hundreds of schools crossed North, South and West Yorkshire, arsenic good arsenic the West and East Midlands, Lancashire and Greater Manchester, were besides forced to close.

Some schools were closed connected Thursday successful Aberdeenshire, successful Scotland, but Aberdeenshire Council said determination were nary planned closures for Friday.

Milder aerial is forecast for Sunday into Monday erstwhile a thaw volition statesman and conditions volition commencement to improve.

Yellow upwind warnings are issued erstwhile terrible upwind that could origin disruption to mundane beingness is possible, according to the Met Office's website.