The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings and an amber weather warning as Storm Bert reaches the UK this weekend (November 23 and 24).
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00:00Hi there, Storm Burt arrives this weekend bringing significant impacts from rain, wind
00:05and significant snow, especially for northern England and Scotland. There will also be significant
00:11contrasts in our weather, both from place to place and from day to day through the weekend
00:16as we start off with the cold air and then much milder but also much wetter and windier
00:21weather arrives from the Atlantic as Storm Burt approaches at the start of the weekend.
00:26A deepening area of low pressure bringing a marked change in the weather and as the
00:31two air masses collide, the risk of substantial snow in between. This is 1am on Saturday and
00:38it's at this point that it's clear and frosty across most of the UK with temperatures well
00:42below freezing across parts of Scotland, northern and eastern England, particularly where we've
00:47got lying snow. But Storm Burt's bringing the first spell of very heavy rain in this
00:53stage and as that bumps into the cold air across the hills of Northern Ireland and Wales
00:58we're likely to see a transient spell of snow. But quite quickly the mild air arrives so
01:03by dawn, mostly the hill snows turning back to rain, unlikely to cause significant impacts
01:10in terms of snowfall. The more impactful snow is expected as we go through the morning across
01:15northern England and Scotland. The cold air remains in place for longer here and that's
01:19why we're expecting in these areas two to four hours of heavy snow building up thick
01:25and fast on the ground even at lower levels. Combined with strong winds there's the risk
01:29of drifting snow, blizzards over hills and also interruptions to power supplies. Meanwhile
01:37for Northern Ireland, for parts of Wales and the south-west, the rain continues and it
01:41will be heavy rain accompanied by gales and so miserable conditions and could be impactful
01:47in terms of the rain building up and the strong winds. Northern Scotland remains clear of
01:53the hazardous weather until the early afternoon and then the rain and hill snow moves north
02:00and it's going to quite quickly turn back to rain at most levels across northern England,
02:05central and southern Scotland later in the afternoon followed by a rapid thaw. So a spell
02:11of heavy and fast accumulating snow followed by rain and a rapid thaw later on Saturday.