Weather map turns purple as huge 550-MILE wall of snow to blast the UK in just days

Snow volition agelong crossed the span of the state successful a fewer days, with maps turning purple to bespeak the accomplishment of the achromatic worldly - which is acceptable to stay for astatine slightest 3 days

Shocking caller upwind maps amusement a 550 mile partition of snowfall arriving successful the UK successful conscionable days, with astir nary country spared.

According to WXCharts, which uses Met Desk data, snowfall volition agelong crossed the span of the state from Monday February 17, with maps turning purple to bespeak the accomplishment of aggravated flurries, acceptable to stay for astatine slightest 3 days. From arsenic aboriginal arsenic midnight connected February 17 until astatine slightest noon connected February 19, Brits up and down the state are acceptable to aftermath up to a wintertime wonderland, with aggregate cities successful the firing enactment for snow.

London, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle are among the areas to beryllium blanketed crossed the 3 days, arsenic good arsenic Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Wick successful Scotland. Large chunks of Belfast, Northern Ireland, volition besides get a sprinkling of the achromatic stuff. Also successful the way of the snowfall is the entirety of the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, East Midlands and Anglia, according to WXCharts' predictions.

In its long-range forecast for Saturday, February 8 until Monday February 17, the Met Office says wintry showers whitethorn summation with a hazard of immoderate "sleet oregon snowfall falling much wide for a time". The forecaster says: "The hazard of wintry showers increases with a hazard of immoderate sleet oregon snowfall falling much wide for a time, but inactive with immoderate sunshine successful between. Temperatures volition apt beryllium a fewer degrees beneath mean with immoderate hard frosts and the upwind whitethorn marque it consciousness overmuch colder astatine times.

From Tuesday, February 18, "it is astir apt that precocious unit to the eastbound oregon northeast of the UK volition predominate astatine archetypal successful immoderate signifier oregon another, but determination is simply a anemic awesome for a much unsettled and less-cold spell successful the 2nd fractional of the month, and into the commencement of March."

The bureau continues: "Temperatures whitethorn beryllium beneath mean astatine first, with overnight frosts, but could instrumentality to adjacent mean oregon adjacent emergence a small supra mean later. Precipitation amounts are besides apt to beryllium beneath mean astatine first, though a fewer wintry showers are possible, but whitethorn instrumentality to near-normal later, with a debased probability of a overmuch wetter play of weather developing."