Badenoch & Strathspey set for further snowfalls amid active yellow alert from the Met Office; warning area also covers parts of Sutherland, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, and Nairn-shire
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HIGHLANDERS are again bracing themselves for further heavy snow after another yellow Met Office warning went active.
The alert kicked in at 4am on Thursday morning and is expected to remain in place until 9am on Friday.
Huge areas of the Highlands are covered by the warning, amid forecasts of up to 20cm of snow in some spots.
The alert comes amid forecasts of snowfall pushing north into the region and then becoming "slow-moving" as Thursday progresses.
"Snow may fall to lower elevations for a time with some locations seeing several centimetres by Friday morning," said a spokesman for the Met Office.
"Above 200m elevation significant and prolonged snowfall is possible throughout Thursday before easing on Friday morning with the potential for 15-20cm to accumulate, which may lead to transport disruption."
The area covered by the latest alert includes Badenoch & Strathspey, most of Nairnshire, Inverness, the Great Glen, and central and eastern parts or Ross-shire and Sutherland.
The warning has been upgraded to cover a much wider area than initially expected, replacing an earlier alert for snow that was confined to Badenoch & Strathspey and areas to the south of that.
The latest alert also comes as forecasts show no sign of recent wintry weather easing off.
Some communities in the Highlands have already seen a month of constant snow cover on the ground, and the cold weather is expected to push further south once again into the weekend.
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