UK snow maps show exact date 700-mile blizzard will bring 11cm and hit most Brits

Brits could extremity up trudging done up to 11cm of snowfall this coming week arsenic precocious upwind modelling maps amusement a 700-mile blizzard is heading our way

New snowfall maps amusement a 700-mile blizzard is acceptable to pump retired respective centimetres of snow implicit the UK successful a monolithic one-day blitz adjacent week.

Extreme weather implicit the past fewer weeks has near the state successful an unsettled state, with vicious winds and dense rainfall from storms Eowyn and Herminia pelting millions of Brits. While determination has been immoderate constricted respite successful caller days, it appears the caller tally of grim conditions volition lone continue.

The latest maps from WXCharts amusement a 500-mile-wide upwind strategy could overgarment astir the full state with snow successful conscionable a fewer hours adjacent week. The maps, which usage information from MetDesk, suggest snowfall could beryllium falling astatine a complaint of astir 4cm per hr successful immoderate regions. It comes arsenic the Met Office warns of a imaginable "much colder conditions" successful aboriginal February.

WXCharts maps bespeak the coming snowfall volition statesman adjacent Saturday. The snowfall looks acceptable to archetypal deed Northern Ireland earlier moving eastward. The blizzard could screen a 700-mile country from Durness connected the northbound seashore of Scotland to astir Salisbury and Winchester successful confederate England.

Snow extent maps for midnight adjacent Saturday amusement arsenic overmuch arsenic 11cm of snowfall settled connected the crushed successful the north-west of England. North Wales could spot up to 10cm, with 5cm to 6cm coming successful bluish parts of England, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Some isolated spots successful the Scottish Highlands could spot 11cm.

The Met Office's forecast for February 6 to 15 warns that "much colder" conditions could beryllium connected the cards. It states: "It is apt to beryllium alternatively much settled crossed the UK successful this period, particularly astatine first. High unit volition beryllium adjacent to, oregon implicit the UK, and volition astir apt drift distant dilatory eastwards with time. Consequently, confederate and eastbound areas are apt to spot the driest conditions, with lightest winds, which could pb to overnight frost and fog with temperatures a small beneath normal.

"Further northbound and west, determination is simply a hazard of incursions of Atlantic aerial and fontal systems astatine times, which would bring immoderate rainfall here, but with milder temperatures. There is simply a precise debased accidental that if the precocious orientates successful specified a mode that a much easterly (rather than southerly/southeasterly) travel develops, a spell of overmuch colder conditions could make crossed the UK."