A Met Office weather map has shown the huge swathes of heavy snow that are set to hit Leeds later this week as temperatures are set to plummet further.
From tomorrow many areas of Northern England and the UK will experience freezing temperatures which are set to bring wintry showers and heavy snow with it. Officials from the Met Office have now issued an urgent heavy snow warning for Leeds and other parts of the UK too.
The yellow weather warning for snow warns that 'heavy snow' could hit the city from Thursday, March 9 onwards. The 39-hour warning runs from 3am on Thursday until 6pm on Friday, March 10.
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In a statement meteorologists from the Met Office 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 10 cm of snow to many locations, even at low elevations, with potentially 15 to 20 cm 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 40 cm of snow in places.
"In addition, there is potential for strong winds, which may lead to blizzard conditions and drifting of lying snow."
Below is a picture of the snowfall forecast at 12pm on Thursday.
According to the Met Office map snow will start to fall in Leeds from 12pm on Thursday.
At that time the city could see anything from 0.5mm of snowfall up to 4mm of snowfall per hour. This is set to continue until 3pm and then get heavier.
At 3pm most areas of Leeds can expect to see up to 4mm of snow per hour. By 6pm the snow is expected to have cleared and instead turned to rain.
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