Storm Bert: Met Office issues amber weather warning

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings and an amber weather warning as Storm Bert reaches the UK this weekend (November 23 and 24).

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00:00Hi there, Storm Burt arrives this weekend bringing significant impacts from rain, wind

00:05and significant snow, especially for northern England and Scotland. There will also be significant

00:11contrasts in our weather, both from place to place and from day to day through the weekend

00:16as we start off with the cold air and then much milder but also much wetter and windier

00:21weather arrives from the Atlantic as Storm Burt approaches at the start of the weekend.

00:26A deepening area of low pressure bringing a marked change in the weather and as the

00:31two air masses collide, the risk of substantial snow in between. This is 1am on Saturday and

00:38it's at this point that it's clear and frosty across most of the UK with temperatures well

00:42below freezing across parts of Scotland, northern and eastern England, particularly where we've

00:47got lying snow. But Storm Burt's bringing the first spell of very heavy rain in this

00:53stage and as that bumps into the cold air across the hills of Northern Ireland and Wales

00:58we're likely to see a transient spell of snow. But quite quickly the mild air arrives so

01:03by dawn, mostly the hill snows turning back to rain, unlikely to cause significant impacts

01:10in terms of snowfall. The more impactful snow is expected as we go through the morning across

01:15northern England and Scotland. The cold air remains in place for longer here and that's

01:19why we're expecting in these areas two to four hours of heavy snow building up thick

01:25and fast on the ground even at lower levels. Combined with strong winds there's the risk

01:29of drifting snow, blizzards over hills and also interruptions to power supplies. Meanwhile

01:37for Northern Ireland, for parts of Wales and the south-west, the rain continues and it

01:41will be heavy rain accompanied by gales and so miserable conditions and could be impactful

01:47in terms of the rain building up and the strong winds. Northern Scotland remains clear of

01:53the hazardous weather until the early afternoon and then the rain and hill snow moves north

02:00and it's going to quite quickly turn back to rain at most levels across northern England,

02:05central and southern Scotland later in the afternoon followed by a rapid thaw. So a spell

02:11of heavy and fast accumulating snow followed by rain and a rapid thaw later on Saturday.