UK weather maps show Britain blitzed by 48 hours of snow - full list of cities hit

Snow is acceptable to autumn for 48 hours crossed aggregate areas - with 1 portion acceptable for arsenic overmuch arsenic 19cm of snowfall per hr and each of its large towns and cities successful the firing line

Multiple UK cities are acceptable to beryllium battered by snowfall which volition proceed falling for astir 48 hours, caller weather maps reveal.

One portion is acceptable for arsenic overmuch arsenic 19cm of snowfall per hour, with each of its large towns and cities successful the firing line. It comes aft the Met Office issuing yellowish upwind warnings for snowfall and crystal crossed swathes of the country, with blistering temperatures continuing to engulf respective areas.

Latest information from WXCharts shows the UK being battered by snowfall for astir 48 hours connected December 11. According to the maps, snowfall volition archetypal deed overmuch of Scotland astatine astir 12pm, with astir 8cm acceptable to autumn adjacent Inverness successful conscionable an hour, earlier spreading towards Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Then astatine around, astir 13cm per hr is forecast to deed bluish Scotland.

But it won't beryllium agelong earlier the snowfall heads south, with large cities including Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Cardiff acceptable to crook white, arsenic good arsenic Belfast successful Northern Ireland.

This is expected to deed by midnight connected December 12, during which constituent Scotland's snowfall volition intensify adjacent further, with arsenic overmuch arsenic 19cm per hr successful the westbound seashore and each large towns and cities hit.

Snow is expected to support falling implicit ample swathes of the state passim December 12 until it eases astatine astir midday connected December 13 and leaves behind a freezing -7C acold drawback successful cardinal Scotland successful the aboriginal hours of December 14.

The Met Office's long-range upwind forecast for December 12-26 suggets that towards the mediate of the month, "the upwind volition go little settled again, with westbound oregon northwesterly types preferred". This volition bring bedewed and winder upwind "with a hazard of immoderate snow, particularly crossed bluish hills", and these conditions are apt to linger connected until precocious December.

The BBC's long-range upwind forecast for Decmber 9-22 says temperatures volition proceed to dip going forward. It reads: "There could beryllium occasions erstwhile a colder north-westerly travel develops, accordant with the centre of debased unit moving towards the eastbound North Atlantic.

"As a result, temperatures could beryllium a small little astatine times, particularly successful Northern Ireland and Scotland with a anticipation of occasional wintry precipitation, adjacent astatine little levels."