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Thanks for the detailed reply, it's really useful. Do you think heading through the Midlands Friday evening and then over east and up to Durham would be okay(ish). The alternative is to go via London but I don't fancy that! BTW, I do have winter tyres and chains but it's more about avoiding potential traffic chaos and getting stuck in that.

Apologies if this is off-topic but it is a question about upcoming conditions across much of the UK and I can't see anywhere else as appropriate to post. If any of the experts here were driving from Bristol to Warrington on Friday evening and then from Warrington to Aviemore on Saturday what would be the safest route to follow, east or west or is nowhere safe from potentially heavy snow? As an alternative would it be safer to head over to County Durham in the east as an alternative to Warrington? I rather get the impression that nowhere is safe to be honest and disruptive snow could pop up anywhere but much of the discussion in places like the Models thread is quite confusing for a newbie like me, with people popping up and bemoaning conditions in their area then others contradicting them. I get the impression though that the west might initially get the brunt of the snow or is it just the coasts and both east and west ... hey I'm confused!