UK snow maps show exact date SECOND '5cm per hour' blizzard will hit Brits this month

With Brits inactive reeling from an Arctic blast which brought snowfall and sub-zero temperatures to the UK this week, upwind maps present suggest a 2nd blizzard is heading our mode aboriginal this month

Advanced upwind modelling maps amusement a 2nd large snowstorm could batter the UK aboriginal this month, with snow falling astatine a complaint of 5cm per hour.

Brits are inactive successful the midst of an Artic blast which saw temperatures plunge arsenic debased arsenic -18.7C successful bluish Scotland past nighttime - making it our coldest January nighttime successful 15 years. The chilly temperatures mean snowfall that fell crossed ample swathes of the state earlier this week is yet to person melted distant for many.

Although the Met Office has said "milder" conditions are expected from adjacent week, it appears it won't beryllium excessively agelong earlier snowfall returns to our shores. WXCharts weather maps suggest snowfall volition bombard Scotland again connected the evening of January 23.

More flurries are expected successful the aboriginal hours of January 24, with maps showing Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester could each beryllium successful the firing line. Where snowfall is astir intense, WXCharts information suggests it could beryllium falling astatine a complaint of astir 5cm per hour.

Snow sum maps for midnight connected January 24 suggest astir each of Scotland, Northern Ireland, bluish parts of England, and Wales volition person immoderate snowfall connected the ground. A tiny slither of south-west England could besides beryllium impacted. The information shows arsenic overmuch arsenic 15cm of snowfall could settee successful the Galloway Forest country successful Scotland.

The Met Office's forecast for January 15 to January 24 states temperatures should soon amended crossed the country, though immoderate regions volition inactive person "cold starts". The forecast reads: "High unit is apt to prevarication adjacent to confederate UK initially, with mostly settled conditions prevailing crossed the south. Cloud amounts volition beryllium adaptable and often large, with immoderate fog processing nether clearer spells, particularly successful the south.

"Frontal systems volition dispersed from the northwest of the UK, bringing immoderate rainfall and windier conditions here. These spreading further southbound astatine times with windier conditions and frontal bands of rainfall making much advancement crossed the full of the UK from adjacent week with the imaginable for deeper lows with stronger winds to attack the UK. Temperatures are apt to beryllium mostly a small supra average, falling to astir mean into adjacent week, though the southbound oregon eastbound whitethorn spot the unusual alternatively acold commencement nether wide skies and lighter winds."