The Met Office has issued a weather warning for snow and ice for tomorrow (Saturday), specifically mentioning freezing rain as a possibility.
Temperatures are set to barely get above two degrees Celsius tomorrow but will feel like -5 according to the Met Office .
As of Friday lunch time, weather forecasters are predicting some precipitation during the “yellow” weather warning which runs from 9m tomorrow to 9am Sunday.
The Met Office’s yellow warning states to be wary of “periods of freezing rain, with with snow in Scotland later, leading to some dangerous travelling conditions.”
The Met Office says: “Freezing rain tends to start its life as snow, ice, sleet or hail, but passes through a layer of air that’s above 0 °C on the way down to the ground, melting into a liquid water droplet. If these droplets then fall through a zone of sub-zero air just above the ground, they become supercooled. When these supercooled droplets strike surfaces that are close to or below freezing, they freeze on impact forming a glaze of ice.
“It’s common across parts of the USA, for example, for weather systems to produce a lot of freezing rain. These are called ice storms, and if enough glaze collects on trees or power lines, the weight of the ice can cause them to break and collapse resulting in disruption on a large scale. The glaze is of course also slippery, which makes driving and walking almost impossible.
“The conditions needed for freezing rain to occur are quite specific and we don’t see them very often, making this phenomenon quite rare in the UK.”
The temperature is due to rise to six degrees Celsius on Sunday.
