Weather forecast UK: Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice issued as Arctic blast hits - list of regions and areas affected
Weather warnings for snow and ice are in place after Scotland experienced a dusting of snow on Tuesday 18 November.
Northern Scotland is under a yellow warning from 6pm on Tuesday until 9pm on Thursday, with the same warning in effect from midnight on Wednesday until 11.59pm on Thursday for much of north-east England and Yorkshire. The forecaster predicts that as much as 25cm of snow could fall from Wednesday, 19 November, with many areas not expecting snow also being warned to prepare for freezing temperatures and icy conditions.
There will be significant regional variation, with some places seeing little or no lying snow, however, it is expected that snow will settle in some areas across the nation. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for ice for regions.
It warns: “Rain and hill snow, followed by clearing skies, will lead to the risk of icy patches on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning”. The warning is in place until 11am today.
Snow and ice warnings have also been issued until midnight tonight. The Met Office warns: “Wintry showers feeding inland from the North Sea through Wednesday and Thursday may lead to some disruption”.
Listed below are the regions affected
Regions affected by yellow snow and ice warning
Central, Tayside & Fife
- Angus
- Perth and Kinross
Grampian
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire
- Moray
Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Highland
Orkney & Shetland
- Orkney Islands
- Shetland Islands
Strathclyde
- Argyll and Bute
Northern Ireland
- County Antrim
- County Armagh
- County Down
- County Fermanagh
- County Londonderry
- County Tyrone
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
- Redcar and Cleveland
- South Tyneside
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Scottish Borders
Yorkshire & Humber
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Kingston upon Hull
- North Yorkshire
South West England
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Plymouth
Wales
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Pembrokeshire
- Swansea
Regions affected by yellow ice warning.
East Midlands
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
East of England
- Bedford
- Central Bedfordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Luton
London & South East England
- Buckinghamshire
- Hampshire
- Milton Keynes
- Oxfordshire
- Reading
- West Berkshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wokingham
North West England
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Halton
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
- Warrington
South West England
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bristol
- Gloucestershire
- North Somerset
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Swindon
- Wiltshire
West Midlands
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Telford and Wrekin
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands Conurbation
- Worcestershire