UK snow: Britain to be blasted by 2cm of snow per HOUR as mercury plunges to freezing

Areas astir Scotland are apt to beryllium worst affected by the snowy conditions, portion Wick, Inverness, and Aberdeen are apt to acquisition 1-2cm of snowfall per hour, according to upwind forecasters

"Half" of Britain is acceptable to beryllium blasted with snow successful a substance of weeks and temperatures plummet to zero, it's been claimed.

Maps from WXCharts amusement 50 per cent of the state blanketed successful snow erstwhile the mercury tumbles to 0C connected November 7. Scotland is acceptable to beryllium the worst-affected area, with Wick, Inverness and Aberdeen each successful to see 1-2cm of snowfall falling each hour.

Discussing the imaginable for snowfall successful November, the BBC Weather squad said: "Friday’s outlook whitethorn supply a small much clarity regarding the patterns that volition prevail astatine from the opening of November. At present, the long-range upwind prediction models are inactive showing conflicting trends."

It adds: "Conditions are apt to crook much unsettled and windy for the remainder of this week, with temperatures dropping sharply. The outlook for adjacent week has go milder and a spot calmer, with occasional adust spells, though determination is inactive a hazard of colder conditions breaking done astatine immoderate constituent aboriginal adjacent week oregon so."

The Met Office forecast for November 6 onwards adds: "A alteration successful the wide upwind signifier implicit the UK is expected towards mid-November and beyond, arsenic precocious unit initially implicit the adjacent continent tends to go much focussed to the northbound oregon northwest of the UK.

"This whitethorn let areas of debased pressure, south-shifted from their much emblematic tracks, to attack confederate UK and bring rainfall oregon showers astatine times. As a result, aft a comparatively adust commencement to the period successful the southbound and eastbound it is apt to go wetter than mean here, portion conversely northwestern areas, aft a wetter commencement to the month, volition thin to revert to drier than mean conditions.

"Temperatures volition astir apt beryllium adjacent to mean for overmuch of this play arsenic a whole, though immoderate colder interludes are possible."