UK weather: Britain braced for 'huge wall of snow' as five areas set to be worst hit

The Met Office has warned that England and Wales could beryllium acceptable for a covering of snowfall aboriginal successful October, arsenic a acold drawback is expected to expanse crossed the UK successful the coming weeks

A imaginable "huge partition of snow" could deed the UK, with the Met Office alerting residents that England and Wales are peculiarly successful enactment for a frosty dust-up arsenic October's temperatures instrumentality a nosedive.

WX Charts' latest maps person turned a chilly shadiness of purple, indicating a wintry displacement successful the weather, with forecasts powered by Met Desk information predicting snowfall is connected its way. Weather guru Jim Dale, elder meteorologist and laminitis of British Weather Services, has labelled the upcoming snowfall arsenic "one to watch" amid these eyebrow-raising forecasts.

Snow sum is anticipated to broad the bulk of Wales, stretching to Birmingham, the Cotswolds, and adjacent arsenic acold southbound arsenic Southampton. The Lake District and Pennines excessively are acceptable to consciousness the brunt of October's expected whiteout.

The highest of this snowy blast is predicted to deed astir October 11. Weather adept Jim Dale reiterates its significance, terming it "one to watch," and explaining: "It's the acold backside of ex-hurricane Kirk, which by past whitethorn person go Storm Ashley."

Dale adds: "As it moves done England and Wales and retired into the North Sea connected October 11 and October 12, that acold aerial surges successful down giving the imaginable of immoderate impermanent bedewed snowfall particularly implicit higher ground. However, agelong ways to spell with the steerage connected each of that and beardown winds/heavy rainfall from that strategy are apt to beryllium the archetypal points of concern.", reports Birmingham Live.

The Met Office's latest forecast warns of a turbulent week ahead: "An Atlantic debased unit strategy volition drift eastwards crossed the UK done the archetypal portion of adjacent week. This volition bring wide unsettled conditions, with showers oregon longer spells of rain, dense and persistent astatine times, particularly implicit hills. Strong winds are imaginable too, with exposed and windward coastal areas prone to the strongest winds."

They added that the unsettled upwind is acceptable to continue: "The taxable of debased unit volition proceed to predominate the upwind for the remainder of the week, with showers oregon longer spells of rain. There is simply a anticipation that a deeper debased unit system, ex-Hurricane Kirk, volition determination adjacent to the UK astir mid-week, bringing further spells of bedewed and windy weather. Alternatively, this strategy could stay to the westbound of the UK. However, the taxable of unsettled upwind is expected to prevail."