The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow across Merseyside.
In a new update, the weather service warned that heavy snow has the potential to cause significant disruption this week. Snow could develop quite widely across Merseyside as a potentially deep area of low pressure moves across the UK.
The Met Office has put the yellow weather warning in place from 3am on Thursday, March 9 until 6pm on Friday, March 10.
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In a statement, they said: "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 five 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 Met Office says people must expect a small chance of long delays and cancellations on bus, rail and air travel, roads becoming blocked by deep snow, communities cut off for several days and long interruptions to power supplies and other services, such as gas, water, telephone and mobile phone coverage.
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