Every area where temperatures will drop below freezing as Brits brace for snow

As freezing weather, icy blasts and snowfall is astir to deed the UK, caller maps amusement precisely wherever the acold drawback is meant to deed the hardest and erstwhile radical volition request to wrapper up warm

People surviving successful the UK are being told to wrapper up lukewarm with freezing temperatures acceptable to deed successful the coming days arsenic a upwind informing has been issued for snowfall and ice.

Those successful England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland tin expect to consciousness the chill until astir adjacent week, the Met Office has sid aft issuing a warning. New maps amusement wherever exactly, and when, the plumetting temperatures are acceptable to beryllium astir the UK, which is besides bracing itself for up to 20cm snowfall.

The upwind institution has told radical to expect snow to autumn chiefly from Sunday to Tuesday, but its expected beryllium toward the extremity of the week it makes its mode to the south. Snow volition scope bluish parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and isolated areas of northbound westbound England from Monday evening.

Weather maps amusement temperatures astir Glasgow plummeting to -2C connected Monday greeting astatine astir 6am, portion temperatures adjacent Preston volition beryllium a nippy -3C. On Wednesday, Skipton is acceptable to spot the coldest temperatures of -4C, with temperatures dropping erstwhile again connected Thursday to -5C. The Scottish Highlands volition spot helium coldest temperatures connected Saturday, November 23, with -9C being forecast successful immoderate areas.

Deputy main meteorologist Rebekah Hicks explained: “A notable aboriginal wintertime acold spell volition get crossed the northbound from Sunday and volition apt scope each parts of the UK by midweek. Temperatures volition driblet arsenic a northerly airflow develops, bringing successful colder Arctic air. This introduces the anticipation of snow, initially implicit precocious crushed successful the northbound from Sunday, with gusty winds besides a imaginable hazard.

"As the acold aerial spreads south, wintry weather is imaginable much widely, and a snowfall and crystal informing has already been issued for parts of Scotland and Northern England for aboriginal adjacent week. “Updates to the warnings for wintry hazards are likely, truthful it’s important to enactment up to day with the latest forecast.”

The Met Office predicts Wednesday to amusement the lowest temperatures crossed the UK, with the likes of Aberdeen successful Scotland and Belfast hitting 1 degree. On Sunday, Aberdeen could deed 0 degrees, it's predicted. Elsewhere successful Scotland, Manchester and parts of Wales, it's expected to beryllium astir 2 degrees portion the southbound of England, including London, volition beryllium 3 degrees. Things are expected to lukewarm up by a grade oregon 2 successful the pursuing days arsenic the snowfall clears.

Scotland, arsenic usual, is acceptable to beryllium the archetypal country to consciousness the frosty wound and snowfall time evening earlier it makes its mode to England astatine astir 6pm connected Monday. Northern Ireland, Manchester and different parts of the northbound are expected to spot snowfall flakes driblet overnight and heading into Tuesday, earlier it spreads to the likes of Newcastle and the westbound of Wales successful the coming days. By adjacent Saturday it volition person made its mode down to the southbound with parts of London and Kent being affected earlier it disappears by the commencement of adjacent week.