Cambridgeshire has been issued with a yellow weather warning for snow this weekend. The warning has been issued by the Met Office and says that “heavy snow may cause some disruption over the weekend”.
The warning is in place from midday on Saturday, January 4, until 9am on Monday, January 6. The Met Office has said that the disruption might include a small chance of power cuts, a chance that some rural communities could become cut off, and a possibility of travel delays on roads or cancelled rail and air travel.
The warning covers the majority of England including the whole of Cambridgeshire. The Met Office has shared advice on how to stay safe in the snow, which can be found here.
The Met Office has stated: “Currently, parts of the Midlands, Wales and northern England are most at risk of disruption, where 5cm or more could accumulate fairly widely, with perhaps as much as 20-30cm over high ground of Wales and/or the Pennines. This, accompanied by strengthening winds, may lead to drifting of lying snow.
“In addition, as milder air attempts to move northwards into southern and central areas, snow may turn to a spell of freezing rain for a time, adding to the risk of ice. If milder air is able to spread more bodily northwards, any snow in southern parts of the warning area may be relatively short-lived before turning to rain.
“Given the uncertainties, it is quite likely this warning area and start/end times will be refined over the coming days as confidence increases in areas most likely to be impacted.”