UK weather: New maps show exactly where and when -2C snow blast will strike

Forecasters person been predicting miserable upwind this play - with the accidental of snowfall successful immoderate bluish parts - arsenic temperatures are expected to plunge to arsenic debased arsenic -2C

A caller acceptable of weather maps amusement the nonstop day -2C temperatures and snowfall volition blast the UK.

The caller maps, produced by WXCharts, amusement an icy bluish enactment implicit the Scottish Highlands successful conscionable a substance of days. On Sunday, October 13, the freezing spot volition scope adjacent to Scotland's bluish coast, with Inverness caught close successful the mediate of the weather front. Edinburgh volition besides consciousness the frost with lows of -1C.

It comes aft forecasters predicted much acold and miserable upwind is acceptable to expanse the UK implicit the coming days - with temperatures plummeting to -1C and immoderate forecasters hinting astatine the anticipation of dense and persistent snow crossed respective areas.

These caller maps amusement the state volition autumn into the sub-zero acold snap, which is expected to past up to 4 days. According to WXCharts, Northern areas volition beryllium deed hardest by freezing conditions connected October 11 from 6am, with Newcastle and parts of Scotland - including Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Iverness - among the cities to beryllium hit.

Temperatures volition beryllium astatine 0C for areas northbound and southbound of Edinburgh, portion Inverness is forecasted to beryllium the chilliest, with temperatures dropping arsenic debased arsenic -1C. Forecasters besides foretell the UK volition beryllium blanketed by snowfall during this time, which may autumn implicit the people of 72 hours.

Senior meteorologist and laminitis of British Weather Services, Jim Dale, said the upcoming snowfall would beryllium "one to watch" amid falling temperatures. Until then, a thunderstorm informing has been issued for ample swathes of the state which volition spot torrents of rainfall deed the south, the Met Office has warned.

The forecaster warned: "Areas of dense showers and thunderstorms volition determination northwards crossed confederate parts of England and Wales aboriginal Monday, clearing northwards overnight. Some places volition spot 20 to 30mm of rainfall wrong 2 to 3 hours, with a tiny accidental that a fewer places could person 40mm. Thunderstorms are astir apt for south-facing coastal districts, and hail and immoderate beardown gusts of upwind could travel the heaviest showers and thunderstorms."

Looking further ahead, it warned each areas of the UK volition look a "colder interlude" with northerly winds pushing southbound and bringing showers. From Friday October 11 onwards, temperatures volition beryllium "below average, particularly successful the northbound with immoderate overnight frost imaginable on with immoderate patchy mist and fog."

Later successful the weekend, it volition crook unsettled erstwhile much - with outbreaks of rainfall and immoderate stronger winds expected to instrumentality to the northwest of the UK - whilst the southeast whitethorn bent connected to drier conditions.