Met Office reveals snow is on the best way for the UK – as climate map reveals the place temperatures will plunge to -5C and the place worst of wintry situations will hit as Portugal’s Storm Ivo sweeps in
The Met Office has revealed snow is on the way for some parts of the UK with temperatures set to plummet to -5C tonight.
The forecaster issued 12 hour yellow ice warnings at 9.30am today for parts of Northern Ireland and northern Scotland.
It runs from 10pm today until 10am tomorrow and a slight covering of snow is ‘possible’ in areas mainly above 200 metres.
Forecasters have warned the wintry showers tonight could lead to a risk of icy patches on untreated roads.
People have been urged to allow extra time for their journeys and have been warned there may be travel disruption on Thursday morning.
Tonight temperatures could plunge to -5C in rural parts of Scotland, with the mercury set to fall to -4C in Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
It comes after Storm Eowyn battered the country on Friday, claiming one life north of the border and leaving more than 130,000 people without power.

Tonight temperatures could plunge to -5C in rural parts of Scotland, with the mercury set to fall to -4C in Cumbria and North Yorkshire

Snow (shown in grey) is forecast to fall in some areas of Scotland on Thursday night

The forecaster issued 12 hour yellow ice warnings at 9.30am today for parts of Northern Ireland and northern Scotland

Sheep in a snowy field near Princetown in Dartmoor — Wednesday, January 8, 2025

A walker in the snow in Slade Valley, Co. Dublin, Ireland — January 9, 2025
Meanwhile, southern England was hit by 60mph gusts and heavy rain today as Storm Ivo strikes the coast – the third named storm to impact Britain in just six days.
The storm, which was named in Portugal, saw torrential downpours pushing in from the South West this morning before spreading east along to Kent.
The strongest gusts were expected in Cornwall and were expected to reach 57mph at St Just this evening. Devon could hit 48mph at Salcombe, and Dorset 34mph at Weymouth.
Britain was hit at the start of this week by Storm Herminia, named in Spain. This followed 114mph Storm Eowyn, named by the Met Office, which struck the UK and Ireland last Friday and caused two deaths and widespread travel chaos.
On Wednesday morning, 387 SP Energy Networks customers were still off supply, 303 of them in the Dumfries and Galloway region, and engineers were working to reconnect them.
The high winds, with gusts of up to 100mph, caused significant damage including to infrastructure on the rail network, which led to many route closures.
The line between Girvan in South Ayrshire and Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway is the only route still shut on Wednesday and Network Rail Scotland engineers are working to repair damage.
ScotRail said replacement buses are operating between Ayr and Stranraer and advised people to check the train company’s app before travelling.
The yellow alert which comes into force on Wednesday evening warns that icy patches may lead to some travel disruption on Thursday morning, and a risk of injury from slips and falls.
It covers the Highlands, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, the Western Isles and part of Argyll and Bute.

A motorist drives along a flooded country lane in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, this morning

Damage caused by Storm Eowyn last Friday at Culzean Country Park in South Ayrshire, in a picture released today by National Trust for Scotland

A photo released today of damage caused by Storm Eowyn at Cragside in Northumberland after Storm Eowyn ripped out more than 10,000 trees from National Trust properties

A fallen tree at Holmwood near Glasgow following strong winds brought by Storm Eowyn last Friday, in a photograph released by National Trust for Scotland today
The weather warnings in place last Friday during Storm Eowyn included a red ‘danger to life’ alert between 10am and 5pm, which covered the central belt and Dumfries and Galloway and stretched north on the west coast to Jura in Argyll and Bute.
Calum Carmichael, 19, from New Cumnock, East Ayrshire, died after his car was hit by a falling tree in nearby Mauchline at about 6.45am on Friday before the red weather warning came into force.
He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and died on Saturday, police said.
Justice Secretary Angela Constance has praised the ‘remarkable progress’ made by energy companies to restore electricity supplies to those who lost power during the storm.
Speaking on Tuesday at Holyrood about the storm and the recovery operations afterwards, she said: ‘This has been and continues to be an extremely complex and protracted incident – every business, home and individual was affected by an amber or red weather warning.’
She thanked those who had followed the advice to stay at home, saying by doing so ‘people have prevented further loss of life’.
But Ms Constance said: ‘No amount of warning could prevent significant damage and destruction from a storm of this scale.’

Heavy rain and strong winds were forecast throughout today along the south coast of England
However, most parts of the UK are expected to be drier and brighter from Thursday.
Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Chris Almond said: ‘Most areas will be dry with sunny spells on Thursday, although there’s the risk of some freezing fog patches at first.
‘Cloud, outbreaks of rain and hill snow will spread to the northwest by the end of the day, and Friday will see a cloudy day in the south, with some sunshine further north, before the next band of cloud and rain arrives in the northwest later.
‘Overall though, rainfall amounts will be lower than of late.’