Yellow weather warnings have been issued across 137 areas of the UK from 12pm Saturday 4 to 12pm Monday 6.
Snow and ice are expected across England and Wales, with up to 40cm of the white stuff covering some parts. Strengthening winds could worsen the conditions, with lying snow drifting.
The warnings note that the weather could cause power cuts while also affecting other services such as mobile phone coverage.
Some rural communities could also become cut off, and icy surfaces could pose a danger for injuries.
The Met Office also reports a “chance of travel delays on roads with some stranded vehicles and passengers, along with delayed or cancelled rail and air travel”.
A yellow warning for snow is in place from midnight of Sunday 5 to 12pm Monday 6 in the following regions and local authorities:
Central, Tayside & Fife
- Angus
- Clackmannanshire
- Dundee
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Perth and Kinross
- Stirling
Grampian
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire
- Moray
Highlands & Eilean Siar
North East England
North West England
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Dumfries and Galloway
- East Lothian
- Edinburgh
- Midlothian Council
- Scottish Borders
- West Lothian
Strathclyde
- Argyll and Bute
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
