UK snow maps reveal exact date next week millions of Brits face next Arctic blast

The Met Office has warned the heavy frost volition bring astir hazardous icy conditions connected the roads implicit the adjacent fewer days - with the UK Health Security Agency besides issuing a yellowish upwind alert for immense parts of England

New weather maps amusement the nonstop day millions of Brits are to endure successful different Arctic onslaught.

The Met Office has already warned that temperatures could dive to a bone-chilling -7C successful immoderate areas this weekend, with snowfall connected the cards successful immoderate areas. The heavy frost volition pb to crystal connected roads implicit the adjacent fewer days, with the UK Health and Security Agency issuing a yellowish weather alert for respective locations.

The caller charts amusement that the Arctic conditions volition past into adjacent week, with a ample partition of snowfall seen covering the British Isles successful a vertical line, moving from Aberdeen successful Scotland, done bluish England, and reaching arsenic acold southbound arsenic Cardiff and the West Midlands.

In the much bluish reaches, betwixt 5 to 10 inches of snowfall is expected to fall, portion areas similar Manchester and Birmingham could spot betwixt 3 and 5 inches.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said earlier: "What we're seeing with the UK's upwind implicit the adjacent fewer days is the power of precocious unit and the improvement of southbound easterly aerial travel which volition spot temperatures driblet for many.

"Overnight we could spot temperatures driblet arsenic debased arsenic -7C successful agrarian parts of Scotland from Friday into the weekend. Further southbound we're inactive apt to spot done the play sub-zero temperatures. Rural parts of confederate Wales could scope -4C from Friday overnight into the weekend."

Mr Dixon clarified that though we're bracing for a "cold period," the forthcoming shivers aren't "historically noteworthy". Daylight hours won't bring overmuch relief, arsenic helium forecast day-time temperatures conscionable beneath the mean February highest of 7C.

Wrapping up, the forecaster enactment things into perspective: "February has started warmer than average, truthful it's going to beryllium a instrumentality to much emblematic February averages, albeit a spot colder."

Snow flurries could beryllium connected the cards for parts of confederate England and South Wales arsenic we caput towards the weekend, according to forecaster Mr Dixon. He revealed: "From Friday, there's a accidental of immoderate snowfall drifting successful to parts of the southbound of England and southbound Wales, nevertheless this is comparatively short-lived, it's not expected to beryllium impactful astatine the moment."