Yellow warning of snow & ice affecting Central, Tayside & Fife

Met Office sent this bulletin at 01-12-2020 10:35 AM GMT
 
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Yellow warning for Central, Tayside & Fife
Snow & ice
Between 18:00 (UTC) on Wed 2 Dec 2020 and 12:00 (UTC) on Thu 3 Dec 2020

Headline

Snow showers and icy stretches likely to bring some travel disruption Wednesday night into Thursday

What to expect

  • Some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services
  • Some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces
  • Probably some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths

What should I do?

Issued: 10:29 (UTC) on Tue 1 Dec 2020

Further details

Frequent showers will increasingly turn to snow Wednesday night and persist into Thursday morning though these likely to fall as sleet and hail at times, mainly around coasts. Northwest Scotland looks most exposed to these showers with 2 cm of snow accumulating by Thursday morning in places even to low levels. Larger accumulations are expected at higher elevations with 2-5 cm above 200 m and up to 10 cm over some of the highest routes. Whilst the Southern Uplands is likely to see some snow over higher ground the likelihood is that only very small accumulations are expected here below 200 m.

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Regions and local authorities affected

Central, Tayside & Fife

  • Perth and Kinross
  • Stirling

Highlands & Eilean Siar

  • Na h-Eileanan Siar
  • Highland

SW Scotland, Lothian Borders

  • Dumfries and Galloway
  • Edinburgh
  • Midlothian Council
  • Scottish Borders
  • West Lothian

Strathclyde

  • Argyll and Bute
  • East Ayrshire
  • Inverclyde
  • North Ayrshire
  • North Lanarkshire
  • Renfrewshire
  • South Ayrshire
  • South Lanarkshire
  • West Dunbartonshire