{"id":9747,"date":"2026-01-06T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:41:10","slug":"snow-warnings-continue-across-large-parts-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9747","title":{"rendered":"Snow warnings continue across large parts of UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Snow and ice warnings remain in place across many parts of the UK, after an Arctic blast forced hundreds of schools to close on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Yellow alerts stretch from Penzance to the Shetland Islands, while central and northern Scotland are under more severe amber warnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Parts of northern and eastern England face snow and ice warnings for Tuesday, while the Met Office has warned that &#8220;disruptive&#8221; snow, wind and rain could fall in the south later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The continued stretches of temperatures at zero or below have caused travel disruption around the country and triggered cold weather payment for hundreds of thousands of households. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Most yellow alerts across the UK will expire at 11:00 GMT with the warnings for Scotland stretching into Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Heavy snow of 5-10cm is widely expected across its central and northern regions, with some areas set to see up to 15cm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Met Office has advised those in the area not to drive and to prepare for possible power cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Schools across the country continue to face closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s as bad as I&#8217;ve seen it,&#8221; principal of St Patrick and St Brigid&#8217;s College in Claudy, Phillip McCullagh, told BBC Radio Ulster&#8217;s <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_ulster\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Morning Ulster<\/a> programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g5pg473z0o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 150 schools<\/a> in Northern Ireland will be closed on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Aberdeenshire, Orkney and Shetland councils also announced that their schools would remain closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In Wales, some schools in Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend will be shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Monday, travel both across and outside of the country was impacted by the snow and ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Eurostar trains were unable to reach the Netherlands and Network Rail Scotland warned of &#8220;exceptionally deep snow&#8221; limiting the progress of snow ploughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">LNER advised anyone travelling between Edinburgh and Aberdeen not to travel until 14:00 GMT Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Flights were grounded at Liverpool John Lennon Airport after its runway had to be closed due to snow and ice. The airport reopened later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The wintry conditions have triggered cold weather payments across 451 postcodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Under the scheme, households on certain benefits receive \u00a325 automatically if the temperature is their local area is recorded or forecast as 0C or below for seven consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Further snow is expected across the country on Thursday and Friday. The Met Office has said it could fall across England, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Snow #warnings #continue #large #parts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow and ice warnings remain i&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}