Batten down the hatches, there’s more snow on the way
The UK is set to be hit with more wintery weather as a number of regions are due to be hit with rain, snow, ice, wind and generally grim conditions.
Less than a week after Storm Arwen first hit Britain, the Met Office have issued yet more yellow weather warnings following their previous messaging which threatened a “danger to life“.
⚠️ Yellow weather warning issued ⚠️
Ice across N & E Scotland and E England
Wednesday 1800 – 1000 Thursday
Latest info 👉 https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️ pic.twitter.com/2oScLh2Awh— Met Office (@metoffice) December 1, 2021
As you can see, wintery conditions are being forecast for northern Scotland and areas of eastern England, with dangerous drifts of snow and icy patches set to start from Wednesday night running through till Thursday morning.
The list of areas set to be affected is lengthy and we would advise consulting the Met’s website for more information but for now, here are the regions due to be hit, allowing you to prepare accordingly:
Scotland
- Tayside & Fife
- Angus Perth and Kinross
- Aberdeenshire and Moray
- Highlands & Eilean Siar
East Midlands
- Lincolnshire
East of England
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
South West England
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth
- Christchurch and Poole
- Bristol
- Devon
- Dorset
- North Somerset
- Somerset South
- Gloucestershire
Wales
- Blaenau
- Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath
- Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
West Midlands
- Herefordshire
Orkney & Shetland
- Orkney Islands
- Shetland Islands
- SW Scotland
- Lothian Borders
- Scottish Borders
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
Yorkshire & Humber
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Kingston upon Hull
- North Yorkshire
A spokesman for the Met office said: “These showers will fall as sleet and snow even to low levels at times, mainly away from immediate coasts, with some small accumulations likely”, before adding that while slighter amounts of snow will fall in certain areas, anywhere between two and five centimetres could fall across higher ground.
Three people have already died as a result of the storm, with damage to structures even leading to the death of a puppy at an animal rescue centre on Sunday night.
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