More than 150 schools are shut in Staffordshire and hundreds of homes hit by a power cut after Storm Goretti brought heavy snow to the county. An amber weather warning for the West Midlands was in place until 0900 GMT on Friday, with a yellow warning remaining until 1200.

Heavy snow and gusty winds are expected to hit Yosemite National Park as a winter storm sweeps through the Sierra Nevada, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service on Friday issued a winter storm warning for Yosemite and other parts of Central California.

A complex pattern of precipitation has arrived in the region and will provide the mountains with several inches of snow by Thursday morning. There is a Winter Storm Warning for the Cascades through Thursday mid-day,

It comes after the storm brought gusts of almost 100mph and the Met Office issued a rare red warning for winds in the South West.