UK weather: Met Office gives warning as snow to arrive in UK today – latest

• Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray

• Na h-Eileanan Siar, Highland

• Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-Tees and Sunderland

• Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands

SW Scotland, Lothian Borders

• East Lothian and Scottish Borders

• East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire

The Met Office has issued a weather warning as snow is set to fall this evening leading to hazardous conditions and travel disruption.

The yellow warning is in place from 5pm this evening and stretches across the North of Scotland and the North East from Edinburgh down to Scarborough as snow and ice is expected.

A cold start to the day for most of the UK as Scots braces themselves for freezing conditions tonight.

Snow is set to fall on parts of the UK ahead of the Christmas period, the Met Office has said.

Oli Claydon, a spokesman for the forecaster, said snow showers are expected on the North Sea coast, including Scotland and the north east of England, from Wednesday and heading into the weekend.

“There will be snow showers but we are not likely to see significant accumulation on the ground,” he said.

A largely dry day, with plenty of bright or sunny spells with cold temperatures, say the met office.

There will be a scattering of showers, mainly focused towards coastal areas and an increasing risk of snow showers across northeast Scotland later.

Those on the east coast can expect to feel breezy conditions.

In Romania, red weather warnings were issued in the eastern counties of Constanta, Tulcea, Galati, and Braila where winds were forecast to reach as high as 100 kph (62 mph), the National Meteorological Administration said.

Romania’s Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja told The Associated Press on Sunday that more than 400 localities had suffered electrical outages.

Emergency authorities said that both national and local roads in the four counties were closed on Sunday. Officials in the counties of Constanta and Braila reported that at least 69 localities had been left without electricity but that teams had been deployed to fix the outages. Other, less severe weather warnings were also issued to other parts of Romania.

The UKHSA has issued a yellow cold-health alert for the health sector covering northern regions of England which runs through the whole week.

This comes as large parts of the country are set to see freezing temperatures.

London is set to see lows of between 1C and 0C throughout the week, the Met Office said.

The rest of the UK will also see frosty weather, with temperatures forecast to dip as low as -8C in sheltered hills and glens in Scotland.

Parts of rural eastern England could see temperatures as low as minus five, while across the country, top temperatures will range from around 2 to 7C – below average for this time of year.

As parts of the UK are bracing for snow, most of the country will see frosty weather from today, with temperatures forecast to dip as low as -8C in sheltered hills and glens in Scotland.

The rest of the country can expect the mercury to go as low -2 to -5C.

The Met Office forecasts some sunny spells, but showers are expected in places, “potentially moving inland at times with some snow over high ground in the north”.

Met Office spokesperson Oli Claydon said snow showers are expected on the North Sea coast, including Scotland and the north east of England, from Wednesday.

He added that “we are not likely to see significant accumulation on the ground”.