Snow expected to hit rush hour as new yellow warnings issued

Watch as meteorologist Alex Burkill delivers the latest weather forecast, with up to 20 cm of snow possible and an overnight temperature of -8°C.

Transcript

00:00A real contrast in temperatures as we go through today, towards the north and perhaps the northeast,

00:05temperatures really suppressed, low single figures, only just about getting above freezing

00:11for some places here. Towards the southwest though, like I said, it's fairly mild for

00:15the time of year, highs around 13 or 14 Celsius, so feeling pretty mild despite the fact that

00:21there will be some cloudy wet weather around. As we go through this evening and overnight

00:25and it's now that we start to see the disruptive snow developing across Northern Ireland, but

00:29particularly Northern England, we are likely to see some fairly significant snow. We could

00:34see perhaps up to 20 centimetres above 2 to 300 metres, even perhaps to some lower levels

00:40we could see a few centimetres of snow accumulating as we go through the night, and so that is

00:45likely to cause some problems, particularly on the roads if you're heading out early through

00:49tomorrow morning. Also some wintry showers continuing across parts of Northern Scotland,

00:53so further disruption likely here. In between these two zones, across other parts of Scotland,

00:58we have some clear skies, harsh frost quite likely. Temperatures last night did drop to

01:03the lowest that we've seen so far this season, in fact the lowest since last winter, and

01:07it's possible it could be even colder tonight, perhaps minus 8, maybe a little bit colder

01:12than that, so very harsh frost for some. Different story though towards the south, much milder

01:17here, some places perhaps staying in double figures. As we go through tomorrow then, a

01:22cold wintry start for some of us, milder, cloudier, wetter towards the south, but a

01:28lot of that wet and wintry weather does actually then clear away towards the east, and so things

01:32will turn drier and perhaps brighter for many of us. That being said, still quite a few

01:37showers coming in across northern parts of Scotland, and there will be some outbreaks

01:41of rain towards the south-west of the UK as well, but many places, yes, turning drier,

01:46and there will be some sunshine around. Despite that though, there is going to be a real chilly

01:51feel to things, although it may be a bit mild to start in the south, temperatures actually

01:55dropping as we go through the day, and so for many, temperatures are going to be several

02:00degrees below average for the time of year, and with some brisk winds coming in from the

02:04north, worth bearing in mind that the feels like temperatures are going to be several

02:08degrees lower. For some places, it is going to feel several degrees below freezing.