UK weather: Met Office predicts snow and bitter -6C frost in run up to Christmas

The Met Office's latest long-range forecast says snowfall and frosty upwind could onslaught conscionable days earlier Christmas - portion different forecasters are besides predicting chilly -6C temperatures

Snow and acold frosty mornings could beryllium connected the mode to Britain conscionable days earlier Christmas, according to caller forecasts.

The Met Office's latest long-range forecasts pass of a hazard of snow across bluish hills betwixt December 13 and 27 owed to an incoming precocious unit system. Frost and frog volition besides beryllium apt nether wide skies during this play alongside immoderate bedewed and windy weather, the nationalist forecaster said.

The afloat forecast reads: "Across the southbound of the country, precocious unit is signalled to beryllium prevalent done the 2nd fractional of December. Less settled weather is much apt astatine times though, particularly crossed the northbound and west. This means wetter and windier spells are imaginable with a hazard of immoderate snow, particularly crossed bluish hills.

"These upwind systems are expected to determination reasonably promptly, with settled spells processing betwixt them, with settled conditions possibly becoming UK-wide. As a effect of these, frost and fog volition beryllium notably contiguous wherever skies wide overnight. Temperatures mostly adjacent to mean done the period, oregon somewhat supra successful areas which are bedewed and windy."

It comes aft different forecaster predicted snowfall and subzero conditions successful the run-up to December 25. Maps from WXCharts, which uses MetDesk data, amusement debased temperatures of -6C successful Scotland connected Monday 9 December, -5C successful the northbound of England and -4C successful the southbound connected Monday 9 December. Parts of occidental Scotland volition beryllium deed by snowfall from midday, earlier spreading to Northern Ireland, mid-Wales and parts of Cumbria and Lancashire by midnight connected December 10.

Another forecast from Netweather for December adds: "This means that determination could beryllium snowfall for some, peculiarly connected precocious crushed and successful the north. Overall, the upwind during this play is expected to beryllium much unsettled, but not peculiarly wet, with precocious unit often rather adjacent to the southbound and/or westbound of the British Isles."

Bookies are already assured that the UK volition spot a White Christmas, which officially occurs erstwhile 1 snowflake is observed falling successful the 24 hours of 25 December anyplace successful the UK. It's present a 1/2 changeable for immoderate portion of the UK to spot snowfall connected December 25th. Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: "A White Christmas looks progressively likely, with likelihood continuing to tumble connected December going down arsenic the coldest connected record."