Highlands’ wet Hogmanay to give way to snow on New Year’s Day, Met Office warns after issuing another yellow weather warning
New Year's Day will be wintry, the Met Office has warned after issuing a yellow warning for the north.
The yellow alert, which applies to January 1 and 2, comes hard on the heels of an amber warning for heavy rain on Hogmanay which is expected to dump up to 70mm of additional rainfall onto already saturated ground.
But as wind directions turning round to more northerly direction, the temperature is expected to drop and the rain of the final days of 2024 will turn into snow for the beginning of 2025.
Issuing its snow warning, a spokesperson for the Met Office said: "A band of rain will turn increasingly to snow at low levels as it moves south Wednesday morning, then clearing to snow showers in the afternoon, which will continue overnight and through to Thursday morning.
"One to three centimetres are likely at low levels with five to 10cm above 300m, leading to difficult driving conditions and some travel disruption."
The warning will come into force at the bells at the start of 2025 and remain in place until 9am on Thursday, January 2.
The alert covers most of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Nairn-shire, Moray, Aviemore and eastward across Aberdeenshire. It also extends westward onto parts of Skye and Raasay.
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