The Met Office is issuing yellow weather warnings for snow and ice on Wednesday, January 8, and WX Charts maps and charts show only two regions spared.
08:47, 08 Jan 2025Updated 08:48, 08 Jan 2025
UK faces 25cm snow storm with ‘only two’ places in England spared
A 48-hour snow storm could hit the UK as the country braces for plunging temperatures. The Met Office is issuing yellow weather warnings for snow and ice on Wednesday, January 8, and WX Charts maps and charts show only two regions spared.
Everywhere but the Midlands and East of England could be hammered. Up to 25cm is expected to hit Scotland, while some regions in the north of England will see as much as 10cm of snow on Wednesday, the data from the Met Desk shows.
By 9pm, snow depths could reach around 20cm in the north of England. On Thursday, snow will continue falling across central Scotland, and depths of 21cm are expected in the far north, with snow still on the ground in southern England.
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Exacta Weather forecaster James Madden said: “That expected and big snow risk event for heavy snow in southern England intensifies for tomorrow/Thursday and then again on Friday/Saturday, just as we said they would…”
“Additionally, ALL of our updates throughout last week and the week prior stated that the snow risk would remain in place across the country and even heighten across southern areas DEEP into this week,” Mr Madden went on to say.
He said: “Third-party snow forecast projections for tomorrow afternoon/evening in southern England. We only ever use these third-party indicators and their images to back up our much earlier forecast projections for the exact same period, and they don’t necessarily reflect our own forecast expectations or scale but they do show that they are now appearing elsewhere…”
Netweather TV’s Jo Farrow, meanwhile, added: “It’s been a chilly night with temperatures around zero for many parts of the UK. The next few nights will be colder as the Arctic air from the north tightens its grip. Ice will be a major issue. This cold flow is around a significant low pressure over Oslo, bringing disruptive snow to southern Scandinavia.
“There are warnings for heavy snow and ice and for Denmark hurricane-force gusts and severe thunderstorms. There have been wintry showers for the UK with larger clusters, even meso-circulations developing in the cold air heading south and east overnight. “