Winter is making a strong impact on the UK and Ireland, with Northern Ireland facing an ice warning while the rest of the UK anticipates snowfall.
All six counties in Northern Ireland have been issued with an ice warning by the UK Met Office, with winter set to strike Ireland and Great Britain with a vengeance in the coming days.
As of Wednesday afternoon, no weather warnings have been issued for the Republic of Ireland by Met Éireann, but with temperatures set to plunge below freezing overnight and with multiple warnings having been issued in the UK, it seems inevitable that weather alerts will be issued by the national forecaster between now and the weekend. A Status Yellow ice warning kicks in for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry at 4pm on Wednesday and will remain in place until 10am on Thursday morning. The Met Office has flagged that there will be icy patches on untreated roads in affected areas during that period and that difficult travel conditions and some slips and falls on icy surfaces are expected as a result. Further afield in the UK, meanwhile, a three-day snow warning has been issued for almost all of England and Wales and parts of Scotland this weekend as the Met Office has warned rural communities could become cut off. About 5cm of snow is expected widely across the Midlands, Wales and northern England, with as much as 20-30cm over high ground in Wales and/or the Pennines, the forecaster added. Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “At the moment we’ve issued a very large snow warning for Saturday until Monday but it doesn’t mean that everywhere within that warning could see snow, it’s just a heads-up there could be some impacts. “It’s definitely going to start off as snow in many places but it’s a question of how quickly that snow melts and turns back to rain, it’s more likely that the snow won’t last that long in southern England
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