A Met Office Yellow Warning for snow and ice remains in place today – the forecast is windy with wintry showers, drying up this afternoon.
The Queensferry Crossing remains CLOSED.
Today:
Further wintry showers in the morning. These becoming less widespread in the afternoon with more in the way of dry and sunny weather especially in east. Strong winds easing. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
Tonight:
Any showers dying out this evening with clear spells allowing a frost for a time. Becoming cloudy overnight with sleet, snow, easterly winds, reaching Southwest and Borders. Minimum temperature -2 °C.
Tomorrow (Thursday):
Sleet or snow in morning, early afternoon, east coast rain, with strong northeast winds. Possibly disruptive snow high ground in south. Becoming drier in afternoon with some sunshine, winds easing. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
Outlook for Friday to Sunday:
Heavy rain arriving on Friday, thaw, clearing to scattered showers. Windy. Dry start Saturday then more heavy rain, windy again. Sunshine, showers Sunday with gales or severe gales.
Storm Dennis to bring heavy rain and gales
Named by the Met Office, the impacts from this low-pressure system are not expected to be as extreme as Storm Ciara but will bring widespread strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the UK.
The system will develop in the North Atlantic before tracking eastwards towards the UK and Ireland over the coming days, passing to the north of Scotland on Saturday. A National Severe Weather Warning for wind has been issued for much of England and Wales, further warnings are likely to be issued in the coming days.
Steve Ramsdale, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office said: “Another spell of very wet and windy weather is expected for Saturday, although Storm Dennis is currently not expected to be as severe as Ciara disruption is still likely.
“Our confidence in the forecast means we have been able to issue severe weather warnings well in advance, giving people time to prepare for potential impacts of the storm.
“With further warnings possible over the next few days people should keep up to date with the Met Office forecast using our website, app or by following us on social media.”
Over the weekend wind gusts will widely reach in excess of 50mph, even across some inland areas, with gusts of over 60mph possible over hills, coastal areas and exposed locations.
While these winds have the potential to bring impacts they are not as strong as the gusts we saw last weekend with Storm Ciara when a gust of 97mph was recorded on the Isle of Wight.
Heavy rain is also expected with the storm and with already saturated ground there is a risk of further flooding. Storm Dennis is expected to bring a range of impacts, including delays and cancellations to transport services, damage to power supplies and large coastal waves.
The weather this week, ahead of Storm Dennis, remains unsettled. North westerly winds are bringing cold air across the UK and the north of England and Scotland will continue to see some snow, mainly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Winds remain strong with sunny, dry spells expected in places especially in the east.
You can get the most accurate and up to date forecast for your area using the Met Office forecast pages and by following them on Twitter and Facebook, as well as using the mobile app which is available for iPhone from the App store and for Android from the Google Play store.
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