First snow warning this season issued for Leeds as Met Office warns of travel disruption and heavy rain
The Met Office has warned of 12 hours of potential disruption ⚠️
A yellow weather warning for snow has been issued across large parts of northern England and Scotland, covering Leeds and West Yorkshire.
In the first warning of its kind this season, the Met Office warned that snow may disrupt travel on high ground on Tuesday morning (November 17).
The warning is in place from midnight until noon, during which those in the affected areas should expect longer journey times by road, bus and rail.
Meteorologists also said there is a small chance of power outages or disruption to mobile phone coverage in affected areas.
A Met Office spokesperson said: “A band of rain is expected to head northwards across the UK through Monday night and Tuesday morning.
“As it encounters colder air across the highlighted region, it is likely to turn to snow for a time, mainly affecting locations at 100 m altitude or higher. Any snow falling below this level will more likely be temporary and quickly melt.
“Where snow does accumulate, depths of 1-5 cm are likely; some locations above 300-400 m could see 5-15 cm.
“This may cause travel disruption on higher level routes, particularly in combination with a strong easterly wind which could also cause some localised drifting. Some accretion of ice onto infrastructure such as power lines is also a possibility.
“Snow will gradually turn back to rain both from the south and through the morning on Tuesday.”
Locally, however, Leeds can expect heavy rain throughout most of the day, with temperatures around 3C to 4C in the morning, rising to around 7C in the afternoon and into the night.