UK snow: Alarming new map turns purple as Scandinavian freeze barrels towards Britain

Freezing aerial from Scandinavia is astir to nonstop temperatures plunging successful the UK and crossed Europe, according to caller upwind maps, arsenic forecasters pass of a acold spell processing successful the days ahead

Britain could soon beryllium plunged heavy into subzero conditions by a blast of Scandinavian air.

New weather maps from WXCharts amusement a harsh acold beforehand sweeping crossed the continent towards the UK, with daytime temperatures dropping to a biting -15C connected the greeting of Friday 13 December successful immoderate parts of eastbound Europe. This aforesaid upwind signifier volition besides bring chilly conditions to the UK, with snow forecast to autumn crossed overmuch of bluish Scotland, immoderate areas astir the Scottish Borders and implicit the Pennines. It comes amid a much colder upwind picture expected to make astatine the commencement of December.

Further forecasts amusement snowfall connected the mode to occidental Scotland from midday connected December 9. Wintry showers volition past dispersed to Northern Ireland, mid-Wales and parts of Cumbria and Lancashire by December 11. Weather charts amusement a mid-Atlantic ridge forming astir this time, expanding the accidental of acold aerial being brought down from the Arctic circle.

In a caller forecast, James Madden from Exacta Weather said: "The wintry upwind during this week volition beryllium confined to higher crushed successful Scotland, bluish England, and Wales betwixt contiguous and Thursday/Friday, and immoderate overnight and non-significant wintry upwind oregon sleet could besides beryllium recorded erstwhile again crossed higher elevations oregon a small little during the evenings and aboriginal hours astir midweek successful immoderate confederate regions arsenic an country of debased unit keeps things unsettled and windy successful immoderate of these parts during this period. The sunny spells, periods of gloom, rainfall oregon dense rain, and further periods of mean to beardown winds astatine times volition proceed to grace our shores passim astir of the week and anterior to the adjacent wintry blast and expanding hazard for snowfall oregon wide snowfall erstwhile again successful and astir aboriginal December."

The Met Office's latest long-range forecast for Friday 13 December to Friday 27 December reads: "Across the southbound of the country, precocious unit is signalled to beryllium prevalent done the 2nd fractional of December. Less settled upwind is much apt astatine times though, particularly crossed the northbound and west. This means wetter and windier spells are imaginable with a hazard of immoderate snow, particularly crossed bluish hills. These upwind systems are expected to determination reasonably promptly, with settled spells processing betwixt them, with settled conditions possibly becoming UK-wide. As a effect of these, frost and fog volition beryllium notably contiguous wherever skies wide overnight."