Press Association: Britain is set for a heavy bout of rain with the arrival of what is left of the snow storms that blasted the US east coast.
Snow hit the area from the Gulf coast to the north-eastern New England states, where the heaviest official report was 42 inches, in Glengary, West Virginia. But it has been hugely modified by the Atlantic.
Charles Powell, a Met Office forecaster, said: The remnants of the US snow storm when it arrives will be rain from first thing across western Scotland and Northern...