Yesterday morning the UK Met Office named the low pressure system that had been talked about for a while as a potential snowmaker “Storm Arwen” (a name of Welsh descent meaning “noble maiden” and given to the character of the same name in the “Lord of the Rings” series) and as soon as it was, focus shifted from snow to wind.
Within hours of the storm being named, yellow warnings for wind, rain and snow (low level impacts) for most of Scotland and the west of the United Kingdom, some of these have been upgraded to amber (There is an increased likelihood of impacts from severe weather, which could potentially disrupt your plans) and for the coasts of eastern Scotland as well as the North East of England a red alert (It is very likely that there will be a risk to life) has been issued turning “Oh, its going to snow” into “batten down the hatches, matey, it be a bad one!”