Snow and ice alert for UK with up to 10cm expected to fall as winter weather is 'stuck on repeat'

The Met Office has issued fresh warnings for snow and ice later this week as the miserable winter weather shows little sign of ending.

Two yellow alerts have been announced for Thursday and Friday.

One covers almost the whole of Scotland and runs from 4pm on Thursday until midday on Friday.

It says snow showers affecting high ground will likely fall to low levels through Thursday evening and overnight

As much as 10cm of snow could fall on hills above 300m, with 1-2cm expected on lower ground.

A second weather warning for snow and ice has been issued for northern England starting at 7pm on Thursday and running to midday on Friday.

Both alerts warn of potential injuries from slipping on ice, as well as longer journey times on roads and railways.

The Met Office has already issued yellow warnings of rain in part of western Scotland and in the east from Aberdeenshire down to Fife, in force until midnight on Wednesday.

Forecasters warn that rain, likely to be heavy at times, will persist across eastern Scotland during the day and predict that this may lead to some disruption and possible flooding as it comes after recent rainfall.

In London, temperatures are expected to dip to around 5C on Friday with yet more rain likely to fall.

After a miserable few weeks, there is a glimmer of hope with sunshine forecast on Saturday.

However it looks like only a brief respite from the rain, with more wet and mild weather forecast for Sunday the rest of next week.

Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: “Currently we've got warnings out for parts of Scotland, particularly the east and parts of the south-west west of Glasgow. Those are rain warnings, but increasingly, there will be a bit of snow mixed in with those as the conditions start to cool.

“Over the next few days, and beginning in northern Scotland really from today, we'll start to see an incursion of an air mass called Arctic maritime air, and that will bring temperatures down.

“That will begin to extend down southwards from Scotland into parts of northern England, possibly getting further south than that by the weekend.