UK snow maps reveal exact time blizzard will blast major cities in England tomorrow

Britain's wintry nightmare is acceptable to resume this play with WXChart maps showing erstwhile the archetypal flurries volition get astatine our shores, acceptable to deed from a definite clip connected Friday

Blizzard conditions are acceptable to stroke into Britain time and freeze the nation, acknowledgment to a polar vortex split descending from the Arctic.

Major cities including London, Birmingham and Edinburgh are among the large locations which could beryllium deed with flurries astatine the weekend, arsenic temperatures are sent plummeting. The amusive and games volition commencement time with flurries acceptable to deed parts of the state from a definite time.

Maps from WXCharts, which uses Met Desk data, shows the archetypal volition autumn successful the Midlands, areas of the southbound and successful Wales from 6pm connected Friday. By 9pm it volition person accrued successful powerfulness and moved further northbound into the North West, perchance giving radical connected Saturday greeting a nightmare commencement to their weekends. Temperatures volition dip to astir 1C.

The Met Office ’s forecast for Friday, and into the weekend, adds: “Bright oregon sunny spells crossed the northbound of the country, but cloudy crossed overmuch of England and Wales with showers processing and spreading east, these wintry implicit the hills.

“Feeling a acold with an easterly upwind implicit the coming days. Often cloudy, with showers of rain, sleet and snowfall astatine times successful the south. Brighter successful the northwest.”

At the commencement of Saturday other maps amusement astir of the country has a precocious probability of snowfall - astatine astir 80-90%. As the time moves connected the maps enactment an aggravated shadiness of purple, though Northern Ireland seems to beryllium missed.

The acold weather volition past instrumentality with a bang adjacent week erstwhile forecasters person warned a polar vortex split could circulate acold Arctic aerial consecutive to our shores. Temperatures astir practically the full state volition plummet into minus figures from Wednesday, February 12, arsenic conditions driblet to astir -6.

This volition proceed the adjacent time erstwhile it volition autumn to astir -10 successful immoderate places with the lowest successful confederate Scotland , astir Edinburgh and Dumfries, and successful bluish England astatine Carlisle and Lancaster. The mercury successful the 2 areas could driblet arsenic debased arsenic -6C, portion cardinal Scotland and confederate Wales, astir Cardiff and Conwy, frost successful a brisk -3C chill.

Couples connected their mode to observe Valentine’s Day volition person to furniture up arsenic practically each of the United Kingdom volition shiver successful freezing conditions, with the coldest temperatures owed successful parts of Wales, the North West, North East and into Scotland.

Meanwhile bookies Coral makes it 4-5 (from 6-4) for snowfall to autumn connected Valentine's Day this year. Coral has besides trimmed the likelihood to 6-4 (from 2-1) for this Valentine's Day being the coldest connected grounds successful the UK.

Spokesman John Hill said: “We look acceptable for a frosty Valentine's Day this year, arsenic our likelihood suggest determination is simply a bully accidental snowfall volition fall. With temperatures dropping each the time, it could beryllium the coldest Valentine's Day connected record.”