UK snow: Weather map shows when -5C blast arrives in Britain - and it's just days away

Weather maps person shown the state is weeks distant from being plummeted into snowfall globe conditions arsenic a -5C icy blast heads this way, with ample parts of the state acceptable for snow

Brits person been told to brace for a -5C icy blast with upwind forecasts showing swathes of the state volition beryllium blanketed successful snow soon.

Maps from WX Charts suggest wintertime wonderland scenes are weeks away, with immoderate areas facing up to an 80% accidental of snowfall Scotland is expected to carnivore the brunt connected Monday, November 4, with the Highlands and Scottish borders astir apt to spot the achromatic stuff. The bluish Pennines successful England could besides get a dusting.

Jim Dale, elder meteorologist and laminitis of British Weather Services, said: "Colder yes, wrong a northerly airstream. Any snowfall astatine the infinitesimal is confined to the Scottish mountains, possibly higher bluish Pennines. It's a watching brief, arsenic ever but snowfall successful the southbound truthful aboriginal successful the play is becoming a uncommon event."

The Met Office's longer-range forecast, covering Monday, November 4 to Monday, November 18, suggests a chilly alteration is connected the horizon. Initially, precocious unit mightiness support things settled, starring to frosty and foggy conditions that could linger, the Express reported..

"As such, determination volition beryllium an expanding accidental of rainfall oregon showers becoming much prevalent towards mid-November. Temperatures whitethorn initially beryllium beneath average, but volition astir apt retrieve person to mean with the onset of much unsettled conditions."

For now, however, the upwind is looking a spot milder. The Met Office's five-day upwind forecast provides much details.

It predicts that this evening and contiguous volition stay "unsettled overnight with predominant showers oregon longer spells of rainfall affecting Northern Ireland and Scotland". However, it besides mentions that "elsewhere mostly adust with wide spells".

It further notes: "Very windy this evening with terrible gales successful the north, but winds dilatory easing towards dawn.