{"id":362968,"date":"2026-01-10T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:53:13","slug":"snow-alert-upgraded-to-amber-with-more-scottish-weather-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362968\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow alert upgraded to Amber with more Scottish weather warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin RussellBBC Scotland<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Heavy snowfall has caused severe disruption across the north of Scotland this week<\/p>\n

A weather warning for snow and ice has been upgraded to amber on Sunday, with more severe wintry conditions due to hit parts of Scotland.<\/p>\n

A series of Met Office yellow warnings for snow, wind and rain<\/a> cover much of the rest of the country, with bitterly cold temperatures set to continue for a second weekend.<\/p>\n

The amber warning area, which comes into effect from 03:00, extends from the North East into Tayside and Central Scotland until 14:00 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Scottish government, police, local authorities and other groups are due to meet later to discuss their response to the upgraded weather alert.<\/p>\n

It comes after a week of disruption across the north of the country.<\/p>\n

More than 250 schools remained closed on Friday, including more than 150 in Aberdeenshire, dozens in the Highlands and Aberdeen, and a number in Moray.<\/p>\n

Many pupils will have had a whole week off school at the start of the new term.<\/p>\n

Where are the weather warnings?<\/p>\n

\"MetMet Office<\/p>\n

Scotland is covered with a series of Met Office warning areas for snow, wind and rain until Monday<\/p>\n

Amber warning: Snow <\/p>\n

When? Sunday 03:00 until 14:00Where? Central, Tayside & Fife, Grampian, Highlands<\/p>\n

Yellow warning: Snow and Ice <\/p>\n

When? Sunday 02:00 until 15:00 Where? Central Scotland, Tayside & Fife, Grampian, Highlands, Orkney, Lothian Borders and Southern Scotland<\/p>\n

Yellow warning: Wind<\/p>\n

When? Sunday 00:00 until 21:00Where? Central Scotland, Tayside & Fife, Grampian, Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, South West, Scotland Lothian and Borders<\/p>\n

Yellow warning: Rain<\/p>\n

When? Sunday 02:00 until 21:00Where? Tayside & Fife, Highlands, Western Isles, Argyll and West Dunbartonshire\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Aberdeen and the north east is dealing with a second weekend of heavy snow.<\/p>\n

The Met Office warned that “heavy and persistent snowfall” could lead to further disruption to travel on Sunday, with a “good chance that some rural communities could become cut off.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson added: “Ice will be a more widespread hazard, especially overnight as temperatures fall widely below freezing.”<\/p>\n

Scotland’s justice secretary Angela Constance said: “As we enter a second consecutive weekend of weather warnings with continued snowfall and cold conditions forecast, I appreciate parts of Scotland are still not back to normal.<\/p>\n

“While progress on recovery by partners continues at pace, I again want to thank the public for their patience and understanding that full recovery takes time.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, Snow closed the Inverness-Wick railway line and a number of local roads remained closed.<\/p>\n

However, the main travel routes in the north and north-east have been cleared.<\/p>\n

Aberdeenshire Council said there was still disruption on the roads and they were focusing on clearing areas “still affected by deep snow”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: “This will involve digging out and removing snow from the area because the volume that has fallen is generally greater than the space available on the streets to hold it.<\/p>\n

The council urged people not to travel unnecessarily and asked people to upload photographs of roads across the area to the council’s portal<\/a> to assist with its understanding of conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin RussellBBC Scotland PA Media Heavy snowfall has caused severe disruption across the north of Scotland this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-362968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}