Overview
- Amber warnings for heavy snow cover parts of the Highlands and northeast Scotland from midday Friday to midday Saturday.
- Forecasters expect 10–20cm at low levels and 30–40cm on high ground, with drifting, brief blizzards, power cuts and some communities at risk of being cut off.
- Yellow snow and ice warnings extend across much of the UK, including regions as far south as Greater London, with up to 5cm possible and widespread travel delays.
- UKHSA upgrades cold-health alerts across England to amber, forecasting increased deaths among over-65s and people with long-term conditions.
- Temperatures have dropped as low as -6.2C in Dorset, with days near or below freezing and the Arctic air mass likely to linger for up to a week.