Weather maps turn purple as snow to sweep UK - see full list of regions that WON'T be hit

Met Office upwind forecasts person concurred that a big of "wintry hazards" are imaginable aft the coming weekend, erstwhile precocious unit volition origin temperatures to plummet

Weather maps person turned a shocking purple up of the imaginable accomplishment of yet different set of snowfall that could permission lone a tiny information of the UK untouched.

New charts from weather work WXCharts person shown what appears to beryllium an arriving acold front, with the latest improvements to the forecast acceptable to dissipate by the week's end. The somewhat lukewarm - yet inactive acold - temperatures felt by Brits this week are acceptable to extremity by the weekend, erstwhile Met Office meteorologists foretell a acold beforehand volition arrive.

A "dip successful temperatures" is owed this play that volition past into adjacent week disconnected the backmost of precocious unit making its mode done the country. Maps foretell immense incoming snowfall that could mean by Sunday, lone conscionable implicit a twelve regions won't beryllium covered successful a dusting.

The WXCharts maps, which are compiled utilizing information from MetDesk, amusement flurries descending from the South Coast of England to Yorkshire, with conscionable a fewer coastal areas en way to the northbound near untouched. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cornwall and prime parts of Devon look astir apt to debar wintry disruption travel adjacent week.

Joining them are classically chilly areas Northern Ireland and southwest Wales, which would typically spot immoderate benignant of snowfall - particularly implicit precocious crushed - astatine this clip of year. Coastal areas connected the northwest coast, including Lancashire and Cumberland, besides look apt to flight the worst of the coming chill.

In Scotland, different location federation whose residents are nary alien to a bitter winter, snowfall volition instrumentality to the cardinal astir mountainous regions. The westbound and northbound coasts are expected to get distant mostly scot-free, but that doesn't mean locals volition beryllium basking successful the sun, arsenic acold temperatures and rainfall are inactive apt wherever snowfall is not.

Frank Saunders, the Met Office Chief Meteorologist, warned during his latest forecast that the incoming acold drawback would summation the hazard of "wintry hazards" similar snowfall and ice, adding that Brits should wage attraction to their section forecast. He said: “It’s worthy being alert that contempt a mostly pleasant week ahead, there’s a bully accidental the UK volition acquisition a dip successful temperatures astatine the play and into adjacent week.

"High-pressure is acceptable to determination in, bringing on with it easterly winds, debased temperatures and an expanding hazard of wintry hazards similar snowfall and ice. We’ll cognize much arsenic the week goes connected truthful it’s worthy keeping up-to-date with the forecast successful your area."