Snow warning for parts of North Wales extended until Thursday afternoon

A yellow weather warning for North Wales has been extended until Thursday afternoon.

The Met Office alert for snow covers most of the north east of the region, including Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire, from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday) until 2pm the following day.

All six counties in the are are also expected to be impacted by ice with a separate warning in place from 6pm today until 10am tomorrow.

Some parts of the area have already seen snow in the last 24 hours as temperatures dropped.

Discussing the latest updates, the Met Office said: “Showers will affect parts of north Wales on Tuesday evening, then parts of northwest England and the northwest Midlands overnight.

“As temperatures fall below freezing some ice is likely to form on untreated surfaces.

“Showers may be wintry on high ground with 1-3 cm snow settling above 300 metres.

“Showers are likely to merge into an area of rain, sleet and snow which is expected to move south across parts of eastern Scotland, northern and western England, and perhaps the far east of Wales overnight Wednesday, and through Thursday morning.

“Not all locations within this area will see snow, and indeed where it does snow it will not be snowing through the entire warning period.

“Accumulations of 1-3 cm are most likely, with larger accumulations (most likely 5-10 cm) confined to ground above 200 metres.

“Snow at low levels will quickly turn to rain across Scotland during early Thursday, becoming confined to ground above 500 metres.

“It will also steadily turn to rain at lower levels further south through the rest of the day whilst petering out.”