UK weather: Met Office warnings as ‘multi-hazard’ Storm Bert approaches

The village of Horton in North Yorkshire was covered in a fresh layer of snow on Friday morning. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Storm Bert is expected to bring wind, rain, ice and snow to much of the UK over the weekend in what forecasters have called a “multi-hazard event”.

The Met Office has issued several weather warnings – mostly yellow, but also including the more severe amber in Scotland – for Saturday and Sunday.