A Met Office yellow alert for snow and ice has been put in place for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
It could be a white Christmas for many Scots after a winter weather warning was issued.
The Met Office yellow alert for snow and ice is from 21:00 on Christmas Day until 18:00 on Boxing Day.The warning covers Aberdeenshire, Moray, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, Argyll and Bute, West Dunbartonshire and the Highlands. Last year was declared a white Christmas after snow fell in Braemar and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, Strathallan in Perthshire and across Shetland.The year before was also technically a white Christmas, with 6% of weather stations reporting some snow falling in 2020 but in most places it did not lie on the ground.
On Friday, the Met Office said: "Strengthening west-northwesterly winds will bring increasingly frequent wintry showers to the west of Scotland through Sunday night and into Monday morning. "These may fall as snow to low levels for a time where temporary accumulations of 1-3cm are possible, with 5-10cm of snow over the hills. Icy surfaces will be an additional hazard.Sunday 2100 – Monday 1800
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