UK Weather: Yellow warnings as snow and ice expected in Scotland and north England

Arctic aerial is expected to bring snow, acold winds and icy conditions to parts of the UK from Sunday evening onwards.

A Met Office yellowish informing begins astatine 18:00 GMT successful parts of north-east Scotland. The informing extends southbound into England connected Monday and Tuesday.

Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell said up to 20cm (4in) of snowfall could autumn connected precocious ground, with up to 10cm imaginable successful low-lying regions.

The upwind could disrupt question and different day-to-day activities.

Places covered by Sunday evening's warning - issued earlier the aforesaid time - see Aberdeen and Dundee, the Highlands, Orkney and Shetland.

The warning for Monday says the affected country volition encompass much of Scotland and a corridor of north-east England that extends to Yorkshire.

For Tuesday, the informing country grows further to screen Strathclyde, much of Yorkshire and the Humber, and the East Midlands. Frequent snowfall is expected.

The Met Office said snowfall could origin delays connected roads successful these places, arsenic good arsenic obstruction and level cancellations. It besides warned of the hazard of slips and falls connected icy surfaces.

There was "slight chance" that agrarian communities could beryllium chopped off, it said, adding that cuts to powerfulness and telephone services were possible.

BBC forecaster Sarah Keith-Lucas said that Tuesday nighttime could beryllium the coldest of the week and 1 of the coldest of the year, with lows of -10C (14F) imaginable successful Scotland.

She added that it was "not excessively unusual" to get these "cold wintry blasts" adjacent aft entering meteorological spring, owed to the effects of aerial from the Arctic.

But the forecast for the mediate of the week is little certain, with the accomplishment of warmer aerial from the Atlantic expected to make a "battleground" implicit the UK, she said.

She said this could bring snowfall to much southerly parts of England, oregon immoderate much-needed rainfall pursuing a adust six-week period.

Earlier alerts issued by the UK Health Security Agency besides stay successful place. These pass that each of England is apt to acquisition acold upwind for overmuch of adjacent week.

The bureau said this could person a "serious impact" connected the wellness of those who are susceptible to acold weather, and urged radical to cheque connected relatives.

It advised over-65s, oregon those with pre-existing aesculapian conditions, to vigor their homes to astatine slightest 18C.