The UK faces a 45-hour snow bomb as the exact time flurries start and end are confirmed by new weather maps and charts. From 9pm on Saturday, January 4, 5cm of snow per hour will smash into the country – lasting until 6pm on Sunday January 5.
The flurries actually begin today (Friday January 3), though, according to WX Charts maps and charts, which uses Met Desk data. Exacta Weather’s James Madden said: “The ‘first’ significant low-pressure area for the upcoming week will begin to arrive and have implications upon our weather with very windy conditions from around the early hours of Wednesday and into Thursday, when it will be cold enough for some significant and heavy snow showers to develop across higher and lower ground across large swathes of the northern half of the country (both the UK and Ireland).
“Additionally, as the colder air starts to dig in during late Wednesday and into Thursday, the widespread snow risk will then transfer into more central and southern parts of the country, and any earlier rain in these parts will also turn to snow later in parts of southeast and eastern England.
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“Further multiple and significant low-pressure areas will then continue to barrage in across our shores and bring further very windy weather throughout this upcoming weekend under a much colder airflow, and this will initially bring further snow and heavy snow to parts of southern England and southern Ireland on multiple occasions prior to the north on this occasion.
“However, parts of the north of the UK and Ireland will also face further significant snow later this weekend and continuing into next week as these significant areas of low pressure and stormy conditions continue to arrive but under much more favourable, optimum, and much colder conditions for multiple and widespread snow events across large parts of the UK and Ireland over a quite sustained time period.”