{"id":425210,"date":"2026-02-14T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:30:08","slug":"uk-weather-sunny-start-to-weekend-ahead-of-snow-and-ice-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425210\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Sunny start to weekend ahead of snow and ice warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After days and weeks of gloomy skies and relentless rain for some, there has finally been a change to our weather in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arctic air across the UK means the weekend starts cold and frosty with some snow and ice, especially in northern parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, there will be lots of sunshine for most throughout Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it will be temporary as rain with more snow and ice spreads overnight into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/warnings\/weather\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Office yellow warnings<\/a> for ice and snow have been issued across Scotland and northern England from 21:00 GMT to 10:00 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rain will turn to snow temporarily to low levels to give a few centimetres before being more confined to higher gound where up to 15cm is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some ice is also possible so there could be some travel disruption on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to the forecast Arctic blast, the UK&#8217;s Health Security Agency has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/ukhsa-issues-cold-health-alert-as-low-temperatures-forecast\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued yellow health alerts, external<\/a> for the colder weather across northern England and the Midlands, which remain in effect until 08:00 Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They warn that the weather is likely to have &#8220;minor impacts on health and social care services, including increased use of healthcare services and a greater risk to life of vulnerable people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weatherwatchers\/\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Weather Watchers<\/a> have captured the weather across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After days and weeks of gloomy skies and relentless rain for some, there has finally been a change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-425210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425210","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=425210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}