New weather maps show exact time more than 40 English counties will be battered by snow. Around 14cm of snow is expected to blanket parts of Wales and Scotland, and over 40 counties in England could be impacted, according to WX Charts.
By 9pm on Saturday, the south of England will be hammered, before the Midlands wakes up to 5cm of the white stuff on Sunday, with 6cm in Yorkshire and the North East. The west then faces the same accumulation by Sunday evening.
14cm could hit Wales, meanwhile, WX Charts data – projected using Met Desk figures – shows. Counties set to be struck include Bedfordshire and Devon as well as Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Dorset, Hertfordshire, Northumberland, County Durham and Nottinghamshire.
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Elsewhere, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, Yorkshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, West Midlands, Cambridgeshire, Sussex, Lancashire, Rutland, Cheshire and Essex face flurries alongside Leicestershire, Shropshire, London, Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire.
The list is completed by Somerset, Wiltshire, Cornwall, Merseyside, Worcestershire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire and Suffolk. A Met Office forecast for Friday (January 3) night explains: “Showers in the north and northwest, these wintry over the hills, move eastwards overnight. Elsewhere with clear spells, temperatures will drop below freezing with a widespread frost expected for many, and patchy freezing fog and ice patches developing in places.”
“A cold and frosty morning for many, however thicker cloud will spread in from the southwest during the afternoon, with a mixture of rain, sleet and snow pushing northwards overnight,” it adds. “Rain, sleet and snow continuing to spread northeast on Sunday, turning briefly milder in the south. Colder but drier again on Monday and Tuesday with wintry showers.”
Netweather TV explained: “If you are getting excited about sledging, there is hope, but it will be a complicated mix with snow falling after dark, or just being rather wet and slushy. North Wales, the Peak District into northern England, particularly through the Pennines, could see the best snow by Sunday morning.”