UK snow alert as romantic Brits to be blasted by Valentine's Day Nordic blizzard

New snowfall maps amusement dozens of UK regions and counties being smashed by a monolithic acold beforehand successful conscionable a week's time, dealing temperatures beneath zero and inches of snow

Brits person been placed on snow alert up of a Nordic blizzard acceptable to marque landfall successful a substance of days and blast respective twelve UK counties and regions.

Snowfall has appeared connected the radar of UK weather forecasters successful caller days arsenic the brisk chill of wintertime refuses to depart up of spring, with temperatures trending downwards and processing precipitation powered implicit the seashore by dense winds. New maps person revealed the clutch of areas astir apt to spot snowfall arsenic a blizzard makes its mode southbound connected Valentines Day.

A monolithic "Scandinavian freeze" looks acceptable to expanse the country, according to the latest maps from WXCharts, which amusement that astir 70 areas volition beryllium caught successful its grasp. Smatterings of purple and achromatic connected the service's charts suggest each azygous location federation is successful the storm's path.

The maps, created utilizing information from MetDesk, amusement the ice-blast volition frost 30 antithetic counties crossed England, 18 of Wales' 22 rule areas, 24 Scottish assembly areas, and each of Northern Ireland's six counties. While snowfall looks apt to surge crossed the country, immoderate areas volition extremity up harder deed than others.

Areas situated connected the highest crushed volition spot the most, with up to 8cm (3.14 inches) falling successful Scotland, and 6cm (2.36 inches) of settled snowfall successful North Wales. England's northwest seashore is acceptable for the slightest agreeable conditions, with freezing rainfall apt to deed the country arsenic temperatures plummet beneath -1C.

Despite being famously bone-chillingly acold betwixt January and February, Northern Ireland volition spot comparatively small snow, astir 1cm per hr connected February 14. Temperatures volition besides beryllium comparatively warmer, conscionable beneath 0C, higher than immoderate parts of confederate England.

The afloat roster of councils and UK regions acceptable to beryllium affected adjacent week are arsenic follows:

England

• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cumberland
• Derbyshire
• Durham
• Gloucestershire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Warwickshire
• Westmorland
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire

Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Conwy
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Gwynedd
• Isle of Anglesey
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouthshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• Newport
• Powys
• Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Torfaen
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Wrexham

Scotland

• Angus Council
• Argyll and Bute Council
• City of Edinburgh Council
• Clackmannanshire Council
• Dumfries and Galloway Council
• Dundee City Council
• East Ayrshire Council
• East Dunbartonshire Council
• East Renfrewshire Council
• Falkirk Council
• Fife Council
• Glasgow City Council
• Inverclyde Council
• North Ayrshire Council
• North Lanarkshire Council
• Perth and Kinross Council
• Renfrewshire Council
• South Ayrshire Council
• South Lanarkshire Council
• Stirling Council
• The Highland Council
• The Moray Council
• West Dunbartonshire Council
• West Lothian Council

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim
• County Armagh
• County Down
• County Fermanagh
• County Londonderry
• County Tyrone