Met Office map shows where SNOW will hit this week as Scandinavian cold air mass descends in -5C dip – check YOUR area

THE Met Office has revealed wherever snowfall volition deed this week and warns of temperatures dropping to -5C.

Scandinavian acold aerial coming successful from the eastbound is expected to bring bitter gales to the UK this week.

From today, precocious unit is acceptable to determination successful bringing galore regions adust weather, but not for agelong arsenic a freezing winds are acceptable to deed the UK.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Frank Saunders said: “It’s worthy being alert that contempt a mostly pleasant week ahead, there’s a bully accidental the UK volition acquisition a dip successful temperatures astatine the play and into next week.

"High-pressure is acceptable to determination in, bringing on with it easterly winds, debased temperatures and an expanding hazard of wintry hazards similar snow and ice."

It comes aft mixed conditions kicked disconnected the commencement of February, including sunny spells, and a scattering of rainfall and fog.

Downpours implicit the past fewer days person seen up to 30mm of rainfall astir immoderate areas of Scotland, affecting Newcastle arsenic well.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued 5 alerts and 2 warnings successful spot yesterday successful preparation.

Some 40 flood alerts and 8 warnings were enactment successful spot crossed England arsenic well.

Today 8 flood warnings and 35 flood alerts stay successful place, with six removed successful the past 24 hours.

Areas expected to beryllium impacted are clustered astir the south, with Salisbury attracting a slew of warnings and alerts.

The showers creep up the UK and volition besides impact Reading, Oxford, Slough, and Luton with alerts dispersed crossed these regions.

The Met Office has flagged that land, roads, and immoderate properties could flood and determination could beryllium question disruption from today.

As the week continues Brits are expected to person a large "switcharound," arsenic per Meteorologist Alex Deakin, arsenic the mixed weather conditions crook into a acold snap.

As the southeasterly upwind ramps up determination are warnings of wintry showers with temperatures dropping importantly overnight.

It should beryllium a adust nighttime with a patches of freezing fog successful the southeast and chilly winds remaining successful the north.

Temperatures driblet arsenic debased arsenic -5C successful Belfast, -3C successful Birmingham, -2C successful Manchester and Cardiff, and -1 successful London, Newcastle and Glasgow.

The forecaster said: "As the precocious shifts up towards Scandinavia it means the winds person wholly switched direction.

"So we commencement with a Westerly upwind and we're going to extremity the week with much of an Easterly upwind and that volition bring colder aerial arsenic we caput towards the extremity of the week and into the weekend.

"It is apt to crook rather a spot colder."

From Thursday acold conditions are settling including overnight frosts and wide settled weather.

The accidental of Atlantic fronts appearing from the remainder mightiness bring the anticipation of snow and Brits are told during this nationwide somesthesia driblet they'll astir apt spot immoderate frost.

Northern and Western Scotland are astir apt to spot snowfall implicit connected precocious crushed with immoderate showers crossed Northern Ireland arsenic well.