UK snow latest: New December maps reveal four-day blast of sub-zero temperatures on way

Britain volition beryllium deed by 4 days of snowfall and sub-zero temperatures successful the archetypal fewer days of December, caller forecast maps show, arsenic a prolonged acold spell descends connected the nation

Four days of snow are coming to the UK soon, according to caller forecasts.

Weather maps from WXcharts amusement flakes falling connected December 2, 4, 6 and aboriginal connected the 13th time of the period arsenic temperatures descent into the minus figures. It follows a caller colder crook successful the weather that saw temperatures neglect to get supra freezing during the time successful immoderate bluish areas connected Wednesday. While this play looks acceptable for a return to milder conditions - with the mercury forecast to emergence to 13C successful a fewer regions connected Sunday - a prolonged acold spell with wintry showers present appears to beryllium connected the cards astatine the opening of December.

Flakes volition autumn successful aggregate parts of the UK and not conscionable areas successful the acold north, with important accumulations forecast connected December 6 successful Cumbria and parts of Lincolnshire. This volition past beryllium followed by snowfall connected Friday 13 December successful North Norfolk, cardinal Wales and immoderate isolated areas astir the Pennines, arsenic good arsenic crossed the Scottish Highlands.

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."

On days erstwhile the somesthesia falls beneath freezing, households connected eligible benefits whitethorn beryllium entitled to Cold Weather Payments from the Department for Work and Pensions. The vigor enactment strategy provides currency payments of £25 to radical surviving successful England and Wales erstwhile it is recorded as, oregon forecast to be, zero degrees celsius oregon beneath for 7 consecutive days. If the acold drawback lasts longer, you get much payments. To beryllium eligible for the payments, households volition request to assertion 1 of respective DWP benefits, including Pension Credit, Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance, oregon Universal Credit, and meet immoderate further criteria.