Met Office issues 12-hour yellow ice and snow warning for Tuesday across UK

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The snow will cover the East Midlands, North East England, North West England, Strathclyde, Southwest Scotland, Lothian Borders, West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber

People have been warned of travel disruption as 23 areas across England and Scotland will be covered by snow.

The Met Office has issued a 12-hour yellow snow warning for Tuesday, coming into force at midnight and remaining in place until midday. The forecaster said: "Snow may cause disruption on high ground during Tuesday morning."

The warning states that some roads and railways are "likely" to be affected by the snow, with passengers told to expect longer journey times by road, bus and train. There is also a small chance of power outages or degradation of mobile phone services.

The warning, which was issued on Sunday afternoon, reads: "A band of rain is expected to head northwards across the UK through Monday night and Tuesday morning. As it encounters colder air across the highlighted region, it is likely to turn to snow for a time, mainly affecting locations at 100 m altitude or higher.

"Any snow falling below this level will more likely be temporary and quickly melt. Where snow does accumulate, depths of 1-5 cm are likely; some locations above 300-400 m could see 5-15 cm.

"This may cause travel disruption on higher level routes, particularly in combination with a strong easterly wind which could also cause some localised drifting. Some accretion of ice onto infrastructure such as power lines is also a possibility.

"Snow will gradually turn back to rain both from the south and through the morning on Tuesday." The 23 areas covered by the warning are in the East Midlands, North East England, North West England, Strathclyde, SW Scotland, Lothian Borders, West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber.

The Met Office added that the likelihood of the snow is "high" and its impact will be "moderate".

This comes as a yellow warnign for ice is also in place from 6pm on Sunday to 10am on Monday, covering 23 areas. Most of these are in Scotland, with Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria also affected.

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