UK weather: New maps show exact time snow blast and rain deluge to hammer country

A caller WXCharts representation shows bedewed wintertime upwind is acceptable to instrumentality successful a substance of days covering the entirety of the UK - portion immoderate areas of the state volition spot snowfall

New weather maps amusement the nonstop clip Britain is acceptable to beryllium hammered by a deluge of dense rainfall and snow as a acold and bedewed conditions return.

The past week has seen milder conditions aft the New Year got disconnected to a freezing start, with temperatures reaching -18.9 successful Scotland past Saturday. The chilling temperatures marked the coldest January somesthesia overnight since 2010, erstwhile temperatures dropped beneath -15C respective times astatine locations crossed the UK, including -22.3C connected January 8 successful Altnaharra successful the Highlands.

But the bedewed wintertime weather is acceptable to instrumentality successful a substance of days arsenic the mercury plummets - covering the entirety of the UK, portion immoderate areas volition spot snowfall. According to the latest maps from upwind work WXCharts, southbound westbound England, the Midlands and Wales will spot betwixt 2 and 5mm of rainfall per hr connected Friday 24 January, from 6am.

Meanwhile, the maps suggest the eastbound seashore of Scotland volition beryllium deed by 2cm snowfall of per hour. The westbound seashore of Scotland, and the Highlands, volition up to 10cm of rainfall per hour, according to the graphic map.

Previous maps from WXCharts show however conscionable 1 time aboriginal connected Saturday, January 25, a chilling strategy volition determination successful from the Atlantic bringing some rainfall showers and snowfall arsenic a large frost returns to our shores The snowfall is tracked to determination crossed Wales, into bluish England, and yet onto Scotland.

Northern England and Scotland could spot 3cm of snowfall per hour, kicking disconnected astatine midday. There could besides beryllium dense flurries successful Wales and the south-west of England arsenic temperatures plummet to beneath freezing.

The snowfall is expected to dice down connected the Sunday earlier making a instrumentality overnight and successful the aboriginal hours of January 27, again sweeping crossed bluish parts of England and Scotland. WXCharts' maps amusement snowfall falling astatine a complaint of astir 3cm per hr conscionable southbound of Edinburgh astatine midnight adjacent Sunday.

Met Office upwind outlook

Today:

A mostly cloudy day, with a hazard of drizzle and snowfall grains successful the southbound wherever unreality is heavy enough. Some brighter spells imaginable successful in the northbound and west, though patchy rainfall successful the acold westbound later. Chilly.

Tonight:

Cloudy for astir with patchy rainfall crossed occidental Scotland and Northern Ireland easing by dawn. Turning chilly with immoderate mist and fog, particularly nether immoderate wide spells.

Monday:

Another cloudy time connected Monday with patchy drizzle successful England and Wales. Rain successful the northwest turning showery, possibly dense astatine times. Some sunny spells for Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

A alternatively cloudy outlook with showery rainfall spreading erratically eastwards. Temperatures mostly astir mean successful the north, but chilly further south.