BRITAIN is set to be battered by blizzards and icy rain this weekend, with ‘danger to life’ weather warnings in place for parts of the country.
At least two inches of snow is forecast for huge swathes of the UK as Britain is hit with a “500 mile curtain of snow” over the weekend.
The bitterly cold weekend comes as sub-zero winds from Russia collide with a severe weather front heading east from the Atlantic.
The Met Office has already issued Amber weather warnings across most of Scotland, Northern and Central England for freezing rain – a rare phenomenon where ice sheets known as black ice instantly form on roads.
Freezing rain is expected to hit the central belt of the country, causing treacherous conditions on roads like the M62, the M6 and the M74.
Amber warnings for today and overnight into Sunday have also been issued for heavy snow and blizzard-like conditions for parts of Scotland.
Amber weather warnings indicate a potential risk to life and property, and signal conditions that could cause travel delays, road and rail closures and interruption to power supplies.
Temperatures are likely to struggle to reach 2C (36F) during the day today.
The Met Office said the heaviest snow was expected in Scotland and northern England, with 1,500 gritters being deployed.
But forecasters have warned of flurries in the South too.
A RARE PHENOMENON: WHAT IS FREEZING RAIN?
Freezing rain is a type of liquid precipitation that falls as a supercooled water droplet until it strikes a cold surface, at which point it freezes almost instantly.
It tends to start its life as snow, ice, sleet or hail, but passes through a layer of air that’s above 0 °C on the way down to the ground, melting into a liquid water droplet.
If these droplets then fall through a zone of sub-zero air just above the ground, they become supercooled.
When these supercooled droplets strike surfaces that are close to or below freezing, they freeze on impact forming a glaze of ice.
It’s common across parts of the USA, for example, for weather systems to produce a lot of freezing rain.
These are called ice storms, and if enough glaze collects on trees or power lines, the weight of the ice can cause them to break and collapse resulting in disruption on a large scale.
The glaze is also slippery, which makes driving and walking almost impossible.
The conditions needed for freezing rain to occur are quite specific and we don’t see them very often, making this phenomenon quite rare in the UK.
Source: Met Office
Meteorologist Alex Deakin said: “The first batch of severe weather of the winter is about to hit the UK.
“It’s going to be wet and windy in many places on Saturday but we’re particularly concerned about snow and ice across northern Britain on Saturday night into Sunday.
“It’ll be very cold on Friday night and then these weather fronts start to bump into that cold air.
“We start the weekend with a widespread frost. The rain could be pretty heavy across Northern Ireland.
“As it hits the colder air across parts of Scotland and northern England that’s where we’re expecting some snowfall.
“Through Saturday afternoon and evening the wet weather transfers across northern Britain.
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“Travelling conditions are going to be pretty tricky – heavy snow and ice is a real risk.
“If you’re out Christmas shopping on Saturday just be aware of this. It could cause some serious problems.”
The RAC is expecting breakdowns to soar above 7,000 per day while Network Rail has confirmed plans to use 34 de-icing trains in order to minimise disruption.
The cold snap will ease off by Monday although bookies have slashed the odds of a White Christmas to 2/7.
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