WATCH: Met Office issues a fourth snow warning for parts of the Highlands this week, with the latest yellow alert covering a 54-hour window from Thursday into Saturday; central Ross-shire among areas covered by the warning
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SIX days of separate snow warnings have now been issued for the Highlands, after the Met Office added a new alert that is expected to cover a 54 hour period on its own.
Three separate snow and ice warnings had already been issued for various parts of the Highlands on Monday to Wednesday, the first of which expired on Monday afternoon.
But on Monday morning the Met Office issued another alert – this time covering vast swathes of the region and running for 54 hours from midnight on Thursday until 6am on Saturday.
The warning area includes Inverness, the Great Glen, as well as inland areas of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, and all of Badenoch & Strathspey.
The alert area also extends eastward through Moray and across much of Aberdeenshire, the Grampian mountain parts of Angus, and south as far as the northern end of Loch Lomond.
Describing the new alert for Thursday to Saturday, a Met Office spokesman said: “An area of snow is expected to persist across northern and north-eastern parts of Scotland until early in the weekend, when snow should begin to ease and clear.
“Above 150 metres some 10-20 centimetres of snow is likely, with locally 30 centimetres above 250 metres.
“For lower levels, away from eastern coasts, where rain is more likely, 2-5 centimetres of snow is possible.
“As colder air sinks south later Friday, snow will likely fall at all levels, though by then it is unlikely to be as heavy. As well as heavy snow, strong winds will be an additional hazard, with blizzard conditions likely at times.”
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