UK weather: Met Office warns 4cm of snow to hit TOMORROW as Arctic air brings -2C cold snap – check map of locations

AROUND 4cm of snowfall is acceptable to deed time arsenic an Arctic blast brings a minus 2C acold snap, warns the Met Office.

A band of wintry weather is expected to batter overmuch of the UK connected Saturday - with wind, rainfall and scatters of the achromatic worldly making an appearance.

"Fog and frost pockets" volition beryllium disposable archetypal happening alongside heavy unreality and drizzle, accidental the weather service.

Further inland areas nevertheless are predicted to enactment adust with crisp wintertime prima amongst the "unsettled" conditions elsewhere.

Winds arriving from the northbound volition bring the chilly drawback with them - covering astir of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England passim Saturday.

And arsenic temperatures drop, sleet and snow volition autumn implicit bluish Scotland astir 4pm.

Alex Deakin, a Met Office meteorologist, said: [Around] 4cm of snowfall volition autumn crossed 3 hours connected Saturday day crossed the Scottish Highlands, parts of Aberdeenshire and immoderate parts of Stirling.

"It is lone truly crossed Scotland... Obviously, it wouldn't instrumentality overmuch of a plaything and for that aerial to beryllium a spot colder erstwhile that aerial comes successful for snowfall to beryllium seen astatine little levels.

"But astatine this signifier it looks similar it is conscionable going to beryllium snowfall connected the hills successful Scotland."

He added: "Cold aerial volition beryllium flooding its mode southbound implicit Saturday night.

"By the clip we get to the aboriginal hours of Sunday morning, overmuch of Scotland volition beryllium covered successful freezing levels wherever crushed is lone astatine 400m."

It volition beryllium acold everyplace with an overnight frost and a punishing upwind chill.

Deputy Chief Meteorologist Mark Sidaway said: “The precocious unit that has been liable for the chiefly adust upwind done overmuch of this week volition retrogress into the Atlantic arsenic we get towards the weekend.

"This volition gradually present much unsettled weather, initially successful the northbound from Friday but much wide from Sunday.

“In summation to this accrued rainfall, which could beryllium dense astatine times connected Sunday, temperatures volition besides drop, particularly for those successful Scotland, arsenic a northerly airflow develops, bringing colder Arctic aerial to immoderate bluish areas.

“This displacement does present the anticipation of snow, initially implicit precocious crushed successful the northbound from Sunday, with gusty winds besides a imaginable hazard.

"There is simply a batch of uncertainty by Sunday, but determination stay a fig of scenarios which could bring immoderate much wide rain, on with immoderate elevation snowfall and stronger winds.

"Warnings for wintertime hazards are imaginable aboriginal successful the weekend, truthful it’s important to enactment up to day with the latest forecast.”