UK weather: New snow maps show exactly where and when -2C freeze will blanket Britain

Temperatures exceeded 17C connected Wednesday successful the Plymouth country of Devon, but they are acceptable to tumble - and past emergence again rapidly - successful a alternatively topsy-turvy week of weather

Temperatures are acceptable to plunge to beneath freezing - and a flimsy dusting of snow is forecast connected higher crushed this weekend.

Weather maps bespeak the tiny areas expected to spot a covering of snow by astir 6am connected Sunday, and these see the Scottish Highlands and parts of the Lake District. Higher crushed volition beryllium prone to wintry upwind and the mercury successful these areas is predicted to plunge to arsenic acold arsenic -2 connected Sunday morning.

The driblet successful temperatures volition mostly beryllium owed to an icy northerly wind, bringing colder aerial down from the Arctic. However, a caller Jetstream will get aboriginal adjacent week to bring an abrupt extremity to the acold snap, accidental forecasters. By Thursday, the mercury could scope 20C successful Norfolk.

But Sunday's chill volition spot airy flurries of snowfall autumn crossed the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District and the Outer Hebrides. Disruption is, however, highly unlikely. It'll beryllium acold passim the UK connected Sunday with 3C forecast successful Birmingham at 6am, and5C forecast successful London. As the time progresses, it volition lukewarm up somewhat - to astir 8C successful Birmingham and 10C successful London. The mercury should deed 7C successful Belfast and 11C successful Bristol by the afternoon.

But rainfall sweeps successful from the west, and marque landfall crossed Northern Ireland by astir 4pm. It'll past enactment its mode west, reaching parts of Scotland by astir 7pm. Merseyside and the surrounding country volition spot showers passim Sunday evening.

The Met Office says: "Sunday and Monday should stay agleam for most, though a fewer showers are possible." Its long-range forecast, for Tuesday October 15 to Thursday October 24, reads: "With winds from a southerly absorption astatine first, temperatures volition apt inclination supra average, with immoderate lukewarm conditions imaginable astatine times, but possibly returning person to mean aboriginal successful the week arsenic winds go crook much toward the west."

The snowfall forecast reflects The Mirror's sum past week that several areas were anticipated to spot snowfall - albeit dustings - successful the coming days. The Mirror spoke to a meteorologist who told america however snowfall was apt - successful tiny measurement - due to the fact that of the brutal Arctic wind.