Met Office warns of heavy snowfalls across the Highlands by Tuesday and icy conditions from Monday
The Met Office is warning that the Highlands could be hit by heavy snowfalls by Tuesday.
The United Kingdom's national weather agency has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice for both Monday and Tuesday across a large swathe of the north of Scotland.
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Areas likely to be affected, first by icy conditions and scattered snow showers on Monday, becoming heavier on Tuesday, include Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, Caithness and Sutherland, and Badenoch & Strathspey.
Those areas are likely to be hit by up to 10 cm of snow by Tuesday.
Shetland, Orkney, the Western Isles, Lochaber, the north-east, and a long stretch of the east coast as far south as Humberside face similar warnings.
The full Met Office forecast can be found here
