UK weather: 37 cities to be hit by 450-mile snow barrage as maps show where will be hit

The Met Office has pinpointed the 2 regions astir astatine hazard of snowfall this weekend, with caller WXCharts information besides suggesting the achromatic worldly could deed 37 cities crossed the UK connected February 22

Snow could broad astir 40 cities successful a 450-mile-long partition of white, arsenic forecasters pass of a bitterly acold drawback gripping Britain. Brits are bracing for dense snowfall this weekend, with the Met Office pinpointing the areas astir astatine risk.

But caller weather maps besides amusement snowfall sweeping the UK connected February 22, bringing bitter winds and dense rain. In England, 24 cities are successful the enactment of occurrence for snow, including Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Durham, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Lichfield, and Lincoln.

The maps besides suggest snowfall could deed Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Preston, Ripon, Sheffield, Stoke, Sunderland, Wakefield, Worcester, and York. In Scotland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth, and Stirling are owed to beryllium blasted, portion successful Northern Ireland, Armagh, Bangor, Belfast, Lisburn, Londonderry, and Newry tin besides expect snow.

Temperatures are acceptable to plunge, arsenic per the Express, with the lowest expected successful cardinal Scotland astatine 0C. The remainder of Scotland and the northbound of England volition spot temperatures betwixt 2C and 4C, with 4C and 6C forecast for the remainder of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Met Office said: "Weather patterns successful the UK are astir apt to beryllium dilatory evolving.

"It is astir apt that precocious unit to the eastbound oregon northeast of the UK volition predominate astatine archetypal successful immoderate signifier oregon another, but with clip this whitethorn decline, allowing an erratic modulation to alternatively much unsettled and little acold conditions.

"During this modulation determination is the anticipation of periods oregon rainfall oregon snow, astatine slightest for a time, but assurance successful these details is presently precise low."

A yellowish acold wellness alert has been issued for immense swathes of the state with temperatures acceptable to plummet.

The UKHSA informing comes arsenic the Met Office forecast a driblet successful temperatures that could pb to snowfall falling successful parts of the country. Yellow acold alerts were issued for the North East, North West, South East arsenic good arsenic Yorkshire and The Humber from tomorrow.

The yellowish alert for each the affected regions volition commencement astatine 9am connected Friday and is acceptable to extremity astatine 9am connected February 11. There are nary alerts for the East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London and the South West.

According to the UKHSA, the adverse weather is "likely" to person insignificant impacts connected wellness and societal attraction services, which include:

• Increased usage of healthcare services by susceptible people
• Greater hazard to beingness of susceptible people

Cold wellness alerts are aimed astatine telling radical erstwhile adverse temperatures are apt to person an interaction connected the wellness and wellbeing of those surviving successful the country. The upwind alert strategy was made successful concern with the Met Office and is intended to assistance those successful the wellness and societal attraction sectors.

"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," The Met Office said successful its forecast for Friday. Forecasters added from Saturday to Monday that determination would beryllium a "feeling a acold with easterly upwind implicit the coming days."