UK weather maps have turned blue, white and purple as a 398-mile snow wall batters England, Scotland and Wales. On January 24, a 398-mile wall of the white stuff is predicted to hit the UK, WX Charts maps and charts have shown.
The data, from the Met Desk, shows the snow bomb begins from midnight. England could see up to 1cm of snowfall per hour in the northeast, with 3cm in Wales and Northern Ireland as the country shivers in sub-zero temperatures.
The south coast – from Cornwall to Hampshire – will also be hit. Norfolk and the East of England is also braced to be battered, while the North East faces a hammering too, from Cumbria and Northumberland to Tyneside and beyond.
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The Met Office has explained for January 22 to January 29: “High pressure may initially dominate, especially in the south, bringing quiet, grey, and cool conditions here. Northern parts are more-likely to be unsettled but milder. This pattern will likely spread across the whole UK by the end of the period, leading to milder conditions with periods of rain and strong winds more widely.”
A BBC forecast for January 20 spanning into February adds: “As already indicated towards the end of the previous week, the large-scale high-pressure pattern could shift away, as some models suggest bringing low pressure closer to the UK and making for a potentially wetter and windier period.
“Nevertheless, there are still model solutions that assume a further or renewed high pressure area over parts of the UK, which in turn would mean a continuation of drier and somewhat calmer weather.” The BBC goes on to state: “Late in January and into early February, there are suggestions of more unsettled weather, allowing west to south-westerly flows across the UK.
“Rain and increasing winds could become more probable, as intense Atlantic weather systems move in. However, this would be a mild scenario. Not only do models suggest this, but certain atmospheric teleconnections and sub-seasonal signals show some support for the idea.”