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Glasgow Live
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Laura Ferguson

Glasgow weather: Will it actually snow anywhere near the city this weekend? Here's the latest forecast

We've been hit with what feels like an endless string of weather warnings, storms and grim weather this month.

Whether its Storms Ciara and Dennis rolling into town, or yellow alerts for wind, rain, snow, ice - and even a spate of thundersnow and a bomb cyclone or two - it feels like February has been one long battering by the weather.

And of course, we're seeing out the month with a string of new weather warnings taking us into March. Look at a Met Office map of the UK over the next few days and it's a cluster of yellow alerts for rain, wind, snow and ice.

(Met Office)

However, Glasgow's forecasts are currently changing faster than we can blink and although there's currently a weather warning in place for snow in the Greater Glasgow area today and tomorrow, it's a bit more vague than that.

The Met Office forecast for the city centre is predicting heavy rain throughout the day with the possibility of a few sporadic snow showers.

It reads: "A cloudy day, and though starting mainly dry, outbreaks of rain, with some hill snow, will develop during the morning. A few heavy bursts with the chance of snow to lower levels to the north of Glasgow. Maximum temperature 6 °C."

However, areas of South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire are set for a bit more of a snow flurry, but it will be more like the grey, damp sleet variety than the picture perfect white stuff that looks like it's been plucked out of a Christmas card.

(Met Office)

The weather warnings across the Strathclyde region are in place until 7pm today and from 3pm tomorrow all the way through until noon on Monday.

Details of the weather warning read: "Rain and hill snow is expected to arrive from the south-west later on Saturday, the area gradually drifting northwards through Saturday night, Sunday and into Monday.

"In some places this will be accompanied by gales, which will generate blizzard conditions. The largest accumulations will be confined to above 400 metres, where 20-30 cm of snow could build up, but more temporary accumulations of 2-5, locally 10 cm are possible down to around 250 metres.

"Some uncertainty remains over precisely where the focus of the heaviest snow will be, and uncertainty also increases in the details of various areas of snow later into the weekend and early next week."

So there you have it, Glasgow. Although there will be some snowfall across parts of Greater Glasgow, we shouldn't hold our breath for a late winter wonderland.

To keep up to track with the updates from the Met Office, visit their website here.

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