A YELLOW weather warning for snow across Northumberland has been updated.

The Met Office said earlier this week that heavy snow had the potential to cause 'significant disruption' on Thursday and Friday.

The timings for the weather warning, affecting parts of the UK including the North East and Scotland, have now changed. It will come into force at 7am on Thursday, March 9 and remain in place until 2pm on Friday, March 10.

The Met Office has also said the reason for the update is that "the warning area has been trimmed away from parts of central and northeast Scotland and moved from high to medium impacts."

The Met Office said: "An area of low pressure will move across the UK on Thursday and Friday with snow developing across Wales and central England early on Thursday morning.

"This is expected to move slowly north during the day, becoming slow-moving across north Wales, northern England, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland during the afternoon and evening before slowly clearing southeast on Friday.

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"Snow will likely turn to sleet or rain at times at lower elevations, especially in the south of the warning area, as well as near eastern coasts.

"At low levels including major cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle accumulations are expected to be limited with a small chance of 2-5 cm falling.

"However, significant snow accumulations are possible over hills of northern England (including populated areas of South and West Yorkshire), Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. Here, 10-15 cm is expected quite widely above 100 metres, with a chance that 25-40 cm could fall in some places.

"Additionally, there is potential for strong winds, which may lead to blizzard conditions and drifting of lying snow. Ice is likely to develop widely on Friday night as this system clears away."

The following should be expected, the Met Office has warned:

  • Possible travel delays on roads stranding some vehicles and passengers
  • Possible delays or cancellations to rail and air travel
  • Some rural communities could become cut off
  • Power cuts may occur and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected