Overview
- Met Office yellow warnings for snow and ice run Saturday night into Sunday morning, with temporary totals of 1–3 cm at low levels, 3–7 cm above roughly 150 m and 10–15 cm over 400 m, plus a risk of very slippery ice where rain falls on frozen ground.
- Forecasters expect a band of rain turning to sleet and snow to sweep east overnight before milder air confines snow to higher ground by Sunday, raising the chance of brief travel disruption in parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland.
- Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow rain and snow warning for Cavan, Donegal, Connacht and Longford, cautioning of dangerous driving conditions, hail, isolated thunderstorms and spot flooding through the weekend.
- The Environment Agency reports widespread flood alerts during the unsettled spell after an exceptionally wet start to February, with 77 flood warnings and 160 alerts in place on Saturday morning.
- In the U.S., many areas enjoy a milder holiday weekend, but a level 2 of 5 severe risk targets southeast Georgia and northeast Florida on Sunday, and forecasts call for a substantial Pacific storm to bring heavy rain, mountain snow and possible flooding to California and the Desert Southwest early next week.