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Snowfall of up to 30cm (12in) is forecast for some areas, with about 5cm (2in) expected more widely. A Wales-wide warning for snow is in place between 12:00 GMT on Saturday and 23:59 GMT on Sunday.
Snow could cause disruption on Monday with up to 20cm (7.9 in) on high ground, says Met Office.
Amber is the second highest warning level and covers much of Wales for most of Saturday and Sunday.
A foot of snow was reported in parts of County Kildare and blizzards affected the Wicklow Mountains. Ferry services from Dublin and Dún Laoghaire as well as air travel from Dublin Airport were cancelled. Heavy snow showers from Ireland advanced eastwards across the Irish Sea arriving in north and west Wales during the latter part of the evening.
The Met Office warned of thundersnow in Scotland, Wales and northern England in early January 2022. [8] Western Europe has rare occurrences of thundersnow, as on 8 March 2010, when northeastern Catalonia, including Barcelona, experienced a heavy snowfall accompanied by lightning, with snow depths surpassing 30 centimetres (12 in) in low ...
The February 2009 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall was a prolonged period of snowfall that began on 1 February 2009. Some areas experienced their largest snowfall levels in 18 years. [3] Snow fell over much of Western Europe. [4] The United Kingdom's Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann issued
The January 1987 snowfall (also known as the Big Freeze of 1987) was a very heavy lake-effect type snow event that affected the United Kingdom, mainly the areas of East Anglia, South-East England and London between 11 and 14 January [2] and was the heaviest snowfall to fall in that part of the United Kingdom since the winter of 1981/82.
A map of Köppen climate types in Wales. The climate of Wales refers to the weather conditions prevailing in Wales in general or over a long period. Wales has warmer temperatures throughout the year than Northern Ireland and Scotland and has milder winter minima than England, but cooler winter maxima than Northern Ireland. Wales is wetter ...