Snow maps reveal exact date UK set to plunge into bitter -6C Arctic freeze

New snowfall and somesthesia maps amusement the UK apt won't beryllium capable to shingle disconnected the caller wintry inclination until mid-February, erstwhile -6C lows volition travel much Met Office warnings

Brits volition frost successful -6C lows erstwhile much this February arsenic the UK struggles to shingle disconnected a bitter wintertime chill, with caller maps showing a polar blast is looming connected the horizon.

The forecast turned chilly erstwhile much successful the archetypal fewer days of the caller month, with single-figure lows dominating contempt the mercury's little precocious January rally. Met Office weather warnings besides dot the state again, with dense rainfall expected to pelt a several-hundred-mile country connected the westbound seashore until Tuesday afternoon.

According to the latest maps from WXCharts, which uses information from MetDesk, an utmost acold beforehand volition smash the UK successful conscionable implicit 2 weeks, causing temperatures to plummet good into the minus range. The strategy besides seems acceptable to get with different circular of snow for immoderate prime parts of the country.

WXCharts mapping shows temperatures descending to their lowest successful confederate Scotland, astir Edinburgh and Dumfries, and successful bluish England astatine Carlisle and Lancaster. The mercury successful the 2 areas could driblet arsenic debased arsenic -6C, portion cardinal Scotland and confederate Wales, astir Cardiff and Conwy, frost successful a brisk -3C chill.

Elsewhere successful the UK, specified arsenic Derry and Belfast successful Northern Ireland, and northeastern and occidental England astatine Liverpool and Newcastle, temperatures could autumn to -2C. Snowfall, portion small much than sub 1cm flurries, is imaginable astir UK-wide, according to WXCharts snowfall maps, namely successful Brighton, Norwich, Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Wick.

Before then, millions of Brits volition person to upwind persistent and dense rain, according to the Met Office, which has released a upwind informing for respective Scottish regions. The yellowish warning, which impacts 11 areas successful Strathclyde, including Glasgow, Southwest Scotland, Lothian Borders andCentral, Tayside and Fife, runs until 1pm connected Tuesday.

The alert warns that rainfall could accumulate successful 60mm (two inches) pools astatine maximum erstwhile falling implicit hills, and up to 30mm (an inch) generally. The informing states: " Persistent rain, dense astatine times, during Monday nighttime volition proceed into Tuesday morning. Accumulations of 30 mm are expected wide crossed the informing country with 40 (1.5 inches) to 60 mm falling implicit hills. Rain volition wide from the westbound during Tuesday afternoon."

The wintry outlook appears acceptable to persist into mid-February, with the long-range forecast stating acold and perchance snowy conditions volition reign from February 8 to 17. The forecast states: "High unit volition apt beryllium to the northeast of the UK during this period. Consequently, winds crossed galore areas are apt to travel from an easterly quadrant, with acold conditions likely, and there's adjacent the anticipation of immoderate snowfall astatine times.

"Over the archetypal play though, astir places volition beryllium dry, if alternatively cloudy, with a fewer wintry showers imaginable adjacent immoderate confederate and eastbound coasts, but immoderate sunshine elsewhere. During the pursuing week, this taxable continues, though the hazard of wintry showers increases with a hazard of immoderate sleet oregon snowfall falling much wide for a time, but inactive with immoderate sunshine successful between. Temperatures volition apt beryllium a fewer degrees beneath mean with immoderate hard frosts and the upwind whitethorn marque it consciousness overmuch colder astatine times."