Exactly when and where in the UK it will snow this week - mapped

As radical successful the UK hole to beryllium deed by snowfall arsenic temperatures driblet and colder upwind returns, these maps amusement precisely erstwhile and wherever you tin expect to wrapper up warm

As the UK is deed with freezing temperatures, caller upwind maps person revealed which parts of the UK volition spot snow falling this week.

The latest maps travel arsenic the Met Office has issued a yellowish upwind informing crossed parts of England and Scotland for snowfall and ice. A 42-hour yellowish alert has been issued betwixt Sunday and Tuesday, where up to 20cm of snowfall is predicted.

Snow is acceptable to deed bluish parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland first, from Monday evening, earlier spreading crossed England. Manchester and the surrounding country is acceptable to spot immoderate of the heaviest snowfall, with up to 20cm 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.”

Scotland, arsenic usual, is acceptable to beryllium the archetypal state 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. Below are the parts of the UK that whitethorn spot snowfall according to the Met Office forecasts.

Grampian

• Aberdeenshire
• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

1. Na h-Eileanan Siar
2. Highland

Orkney & Shetland

• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

North West England

• Cumbria
• Lancs

Yorkshire and the Humber

• North Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire
• York

North East England

• Darlington
• Durham
• Gateshead
• Hartlepool
• Middlesbrough
• Newcastle upon Tyne
• North Tyneside
• Northumberland
• Redcar and Cleveland
• South Tyneside
• Stockton-on-Tees
• Sunderland