The Met Office has named towns and cities facing snow in the next few days as a towering weather system settles over the UK.
Forecasters with the agency have predicted snowfall for select parts of the country over the next week as “cloudy, dry and cold” weather gives way to rain and snow.
Much of the coming snow is expected to stay over northern areas and Scotland, especially high ground, but the Met Office has outlined the chances of a “transient threat” for some communities.
While it is yet to issue any warnings or advisories for the coming week, the agency has outlined which areas could be hit in its five-day forecast.
Five towns and cities in particular could see snow this week as rain descends across the country elsewhere.
The Met Office’s five-day forecast predicts that snow will fall in a belt over central Scotland this week.
The agency has predicted that while higher ground is likely to see the heaviest snowfall, some lower-lying towns and cities will receive flurries of their own.
The forecast covering the coming week shows that Braemar, Edinburgh, Perth, Pitlochry and Stirling are all expected to see some snow by Thursday, February 8.
Before then, however, Scots will have to reckon with a miserable start to the week, with a weather warning in place for the northwest on Sunday and Monday.
The Met Office has warned that a “lengthy period” of heavy rain will cause disruption in western Scotland between February 4 and 5, with Britons likely to experience some weekend travel trouble.
The weather warnings for rain lasts for 27 hours in total, activating between 6pm on Sunday and 9pm on Monday.
The forecast states the rain will initially push north before swerving south, with inches worth of accumulations possibly causing flooding in some areas.
People living in the warning area could see between 40 and 75mm of rain (1.5 to three inches) “fall quite widely”.
Some isolated accumulations could reach well over double this, up to between 120 and 170mm (five and seven inches).
The Met Office warns that people living in Central, Tayside and Fife, Highlands and Eilean Siar and Strathclyde could see flooding that causes local travel disruption and potentially cause some areas to “become cut off” by flooded roads.
