Edinburgh has been issued with a heavy rain warning for Friday, December 30 and a new snow blast is set to hit the capital in the coming days as temperatures drop.
The yellow weather warning comes from the Met Office and is in place across Edinburgh and the Lothians from 3am to 6pm on Friday, December 30.
During this time residents can expect heavy showers that could bring flooding and travel disruption across the capital.
The warning says that spray and flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and some road closures so motorists are advised to only travel when necessary and to take extra precautions on the roads.
In areas across the city where flooding occurs, there is a slight chance of delays or cancellations to train and bus services. Customers should check online for further updates from public transport providers throughout the day but it is likely there will be disruption.
There is also a small chance that some communities will become cut off by flooded roads and there is a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded, causing damage to some buildings.
Just last month Edinburgh's Crewe Toll experienced extreme flooding which saw a major roundabout near one of the city's biggest hospitals, causing road closures and travel disruption.
Edinburgh Live reported that Ferry Road, at Crewe Toll, was closed and images from the scene showed a single car almost submerged underwater. Earlier footage also showed various vehicles struggling to wade through the water due to the flooding in the area.
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The Met Office issues weather warnings for rain, thunderstorms, wind, snow, lightning, ice, extreme heat and fog, when severe weather has the potential to impact the UK.
Met Office meteorologist Simon Partridge said low pressure approaching the UK would see some persistent and locally heavy rain fall in parts of Scotland and northern England.
"We're expecting quite widely up to 30 millimetres of rain but locally, over higher ground, we could see between 60mm and 80mm of rain and, as a result, there is a chance that we could see a little bit of a flooding risk," he said.
"On top of that the ground is quite saturated so there will be runoff as well, and because it's running straight through the central belt, there's a risk of seeing localised surface water issues."
He said the Scottish Environment Protection Agency said river levels were reasonably high, and that when rain falls they expected them to react fairly quickly.
The yellow weather warning for parts of Wales and England is due to end shortly, after a band of rain moved across the country.
Fields in Somerset, parts of which were covered by the warning, had been flooded after the River Parrett spilled over.
"We had some local effects where there was quite a bit of rain but thankfully there's been no significant impacts that we have seen from that," said Mr Partridge.
"We've had quite a bit of rain in that part of the world already so the ground is very wet and so any rain on top of that is not really being soaked up any more."
For more information, see the Met Office Weather Warnings Guide.
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