Snow set to hit Stirling this week

Stirling is braced for snow, with the Met Office warning that it could cause“significant disruption”.

A yellow weather warning has been issued, including for Stirling and Clackmannanshire, on Thursday and Friday.

The warning is in place from 3am on Thursday until 6pm on Friday and forecasters have warned that it could see roads blocked and public transport facing delays and cancellations.

Some communities could even become cut-off and it could cause issues with power supplies.

A Met Office forecaster said:“snow could develop quite widely across the warning area on Thursday and Friday as a potentially quite deep area of low pressure moves across the UK.

“Parts of Northern Ireland, north Wales and northern England are currently expected to see the worst of the conditions on Thursday, with parts of Scotland and northern England then seeing the heaviest snow on Friday.

“Event totals could bring 5 to 10cm of snow to many locations, even at low elevations, with potentially 15 to 20cm accumulating across the northern portion of the warning area.

“Higher elevations of the North Pennines, Southern Uplands, higher parts of the Central Belt and the southern Highlands may see as much as 30 to 40cm of snow in places.

“In addition, there is potential for strong winds, which may lead to blizzard conditions and drifting of lying snow.”

The warning is in place for Central, Tayside & Fife; the East Midlands; Grampian; Highlands & Eilean Siar; North East England; North West England; Northern Ireland; south west Scotland, Lothian Borders; Strathclyde; Wales; the West Midlands; and Yorkshire & Humber.