AN updated cold health alert with an amber risk has been issued for the region as Bradford braces for snow later today.

Bradford is set for very cold weather with the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning for snow and ice for the city Temperatures plummeted overnight and forecasters are predicting it will not get much warmer throughout the rest of today.

Snow is expected to start falling at 6pm tonight and continue overnight until 7am tomorrow.

Here is the full hour by hour weather forecast for Bradford:

1pm – 3C (<5% chance of rain)

2pm – 3C (<5% chance of rain)

3pm – 3C (<5% chance of rain)

4pm – 3C (10% chance of rain) 

5pm – 2C (20% chance of rain) 

6pm – 2C (50% chance of light snow)

7pm – 2C (80% chance of heavy snow)

8pm – 1C (90% chance of heavy snow) 

9pm – 1C (90% chance of heavy snow) 

10pm – 0C (>95% chance of heavy snow)

11pm – 0C (>95% chance of heavy snow)

12am – 0C (>95% chance of heavy snow)

1am – 0C (>95% chance of heavy snow)

2am – 0C (>95% chance of heavy snow)

3am – 0C (90% chance of heavy snow)

3am – 0C (80% chance of heavy snow)

4am – 0C (70% chance of heavy snow)

5am – 0C (70% chance of light snow)

6am – 0C (70% chance of light snow)

7am – 0C (60% chance of light snow)

8am – 0C (30% chance of rain)

The cold health alert for Yorkshire and the Humber will run until 6pm on Saturday.

The amber alert covers the following regions: North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England.

A lesser yellow cold health alert for the same period has been issued for London, the South East and South West.

The UK Health Security Agency has issued the amber alert with the following information:

Forecast weather is likely to cause significant impacts across health and social care services, including:

• a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions. We may also see impacts on younger age groups

• a likely increase in demand for health services

• temperatures inside places like hospitals, care homes, and clinics dropping below the levels recommended for assessing health risks]

• challenges keeping indoor temperatures at the recommended 18°C leading to more risk to vulnerable people

• staffing issues due to external factors (such as travel delays)

• other sectors starting to observe impacts (such as transport and energy).