THE Met Office has issued a two-day snow warning covering a huge swathe of the nation.
A whopping eight inches is set to fall in just 24 hours on higher ground during the icy blast, which is expected to hit by the end of this week.
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4The Met Office has warned the wintry snap will affect the West Mids, Peterborough, Nottingham, Manchester, Hull, Newcastle and parts of north Wales.
Yellow alerts for snow are in place from 3am on Thursday until 3am on Friday.
"Disruptive snow" could leave Brits without power and mobile phone service.
The weather service is bracing Brits to expect travel delays following a whole day of snow.
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The snow is being brought in as cold air pushes from the north and mild air moves in from the south.
The Met Office said: "Where the two meet, there is a chance we could see snow at times.
"Snow is most likely in the north, particularly during the second half of the week.
"A band of rain, sleet, and increasingly snow, will push north on Thursday bringing up to 2cm snow at lower levels, 2-5cm on ground above 200m, and perhaps as much as 10-20cm above 400m."
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It comes after the Met Office revealed the UK would have 40 hours of non-stop rain.
The forecaster predicts that downpours will wash out parts of the UK over two days.
The forecaster has also rolled out a yellow warning for thunderstorms in western Scotland until 9pm tonight, which could spark travel delays and floods.
It turns colder across northern areas with showers, which will turn wintry at times especially over higher ground
Met Office spokesperson
A whopping 170mm of rain could drench areas of Argyll, Lochaber and Wester Ross.
Wet roads will make for tricky driving, with some road closures possible.
And several rural communities in the Highlands could be cut off by flooding.
"It turns colder across northern areas with showers, which will turn wintry at times especially over higher ground but potentially to lower levels too as the week progresses," the Met Office said in a statement.
"There is a chance of wintry conditions developing more widely through the second half of next week as rain pushes up from the south for a time, but there is still uncertainty about the details of this."
Forecasters added there was a "small chance" that homes and businesses could be flooded and a "slight chance of delays or cancellations" to public transport.
Later this week, Brits will be pummelled by heavy showers in the early hours of Wednesday, with rainfall predicted to continue for much of Thursday and Friday in northern and southern areas.
A Met Office spokesman said: “[It will be] mild, cloudy and windy Tuesday, culminating in a period of rain into early Wednesday.
“[It will become] fine but colder midweek with eventual sunny spells, ahead of a wetter and windier Thursday.
"Colder on Wednesday with early frost.
"Patchy rain far south and wintry showers in north."
It turns colder across northern areas with showers next week, the Met Office added.
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These will become wintry at times, especially over higher ground but potentially to lower levels too as the week progresses.
There is a chance of wintry conditions developing more widely through the second half of next week as rain pushes up from the south for a time.
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These are the regions covered by the yellow rain warning in Scotland:
- Perth and Kinross
- Stirling
- Highland
- Argyll and Bute
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- Renfrewshire
- West Dunbartonshire
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