Exact date 215-mile-wide wall of snow to barrel into UK revealed in new weather maps

Weather forecasters person predicted the UK's rainfall and snowfall woes volition persist into adjacent month, with maps showing further chaos looming connected the skyline this February

New upwind maps person identified what appears to beryllium a monolithic 215-mile-wide partition of snow that looks acceptable to collide with the UK successful a substance of days.

The caller tally of weather misery volition proceed into adjacent week and beyond, forecasters person predicted, with the persistent rainfall and acold that has characterised the past fewer days hanging connected into February. The caller month, which is known for its changeable conditions, volition commencement rainy and with temperatures successful the precocious azygous figures earlier a snowy front swoops successful implicit the westbound coast.

Maps from WXCharts person tracked a immense incoming strategy acceptable to marque landfall successful dozens of areas by February 9. The service, which uses information from MetDesk, predicts that astir an inch of snowfall could settee successful a set implicit the astir heavy impacted areas crossed England and Scotland.

The charts suggest the snowy strategy volition marque landfall by February 9, with flurries descending implicit a 215-mile country covering the West Country, Midlands and parts of confederate Yorkshire. The heaviest snowfall volition apt settee implicit Bristol, wherever totals could scope up to 2cm, conscionable abbreviated of an inch, per hour.

A abstracted strategy volition travel further north, pouring retired somewhat lighter flurries implicit the country's westbound coast, with parts of the Highlands seeing astir 0.2cm per hour. The worst snow-hit parts of the state are connected precocious ground, meaning that, should the WXCharts predictions play out, radical successful low-lying areas are improbable to spot immoderate descending flakes.

The Met Office makes nary notation of imaginable snowfall implicit the aforesaid period, with dense rainfall presently dominating the long-range forecast. The forecast, which covers February 3 to 10, notes that beardown winds could travel aboriginal on, earlier drier, warmer upwind takes clasp towards February 10.

It states: "Periods of bedewed upwind are apt to impact northwestern parts of the UK astatine times, peculiarly aboriginal successful this period. Some dense rainfall is imaginable and this is apt to beryllium accompanied by spells of beardown winds. South of this, crossed the remainder of the UK, it is apt to beryllium much settled and whilst immoderate rainfall can't beryllium ruled retired astatine times, determination is apt to beryllium plentifulness of adust upwind done this period.

"Winds volition beryllium lighter and this volition bring the hazard of overnight frost and fog. Overall, temperatures volition beryllium adjacent to mean for most, but it is apt to beryllium mild astatine times successful the northwest. Brief colder spells are apt present successful betwixt upwind systems though."