UK snow latest: New maps show exact moment brutal -5C Arctic blast surrounds Britain

New upwind maps showing parts of the UK hitting -5C aboriginal this month, person been revealed.

One map, for Thursday, November 21, shows the full of the UK covered successful icy blues and whites. It reveals London and the southbound eastbound astatine astir zero, with places further northbound hitting lows of minus 1C, and heading to Scotland and the Highlands astatine a chilly -5C.

A 2nd representation which indicates the magnitude of snowfall acceptable to autumn connected Friday, November 22, has heavier downpours successful purple, the stronger the colour shows indicates the much snowfall that is due. Scotland appears to beryllium acceptable to person 2cm an hr that day.

The remainder of the UK was forecast to person little snowfall, however. North Wales could spot up to 1cm an hour, but astir of the snowfall would autumn implicit the North Sea.

Meanwhile, the weather experts astatine WXCharts person suggested that temperatures could plummet by the extremity of the month, ushering successful snowfall and freezing -2C temperatures successful immoderate parts of the UK.

According to the Met Office, it is excessively aboriginal to cognize if it volition snowfall successful December. The Met Office's Andrea Bishop said: “There is nary denotation of wide snowfall astatine this clip and snowfall is not thing that tin beryllium forecast astatine specified a agelong timeframe.

“Because of the UK’s location, wherever the aerial comes from is incredibly important erstwhile it comes to determining if snowfall is possible. Being surrounded by h2o besides adds different origin into predicting snowfall chances successful the UK.

"It whitethorn not consciousness similar it if you dip your toed in, but the h2o successful the seas astir the UK is good supra freezing and that affects the somesthesia of the aerial adjacent to the aboveground which tin find however overmuch snowfall is successful the forecast.”

Elsewhere, the Met Office forecast a chiefly adust and cloudy time for Friday, with patches of sunshine successful the northbound and westbound of the UK. As the play draws in, immoderate tiny bands of rainfall could caput toward London, albeit with spells of sunny upwind and airy breezes.