Another blanket of snow could soon fall across parts of the UK later this month. According to advanced weather modelling maps, there could be up to six inches of snow (15cm) in some areas.
Weather maps from WXCharts, which uses Met Desk data, indicates that the snow will be heaviest across the Pennines and into the Scottish Highlands. The wall of snow could hit at about 6pm on January 27.
It comes after people across Britain experienced a bitterly cold start to 2025. Temperatures plummeted as low as -14C last week after heavy snowfall left roads cut off, schools closed and homes without power.
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The icy cold conditions continued all week, before thawing to a milder 8C to 10C this week. The Met Office has forecast a ‘transition’ later this month, where dry and ‘unsettled’ conditions could soon become much wetter.
Maps from WXCharts suggest this could be in the form of snow set to make its return in two weeks’ time, Mirror reports. Maps also indicate that a band of snow heading towards Scotland on the afternoon of January 27.
Snow on January 27
(Image: WX Charts)
The patch, outspread across Lancashire, the North East and the Scottish Borders, as well as parts of Ireland, could bring up to 2cm per hour. The Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands will see the heaviest snow later that evening, if the forecast is accurate.
Maps show up to 3cm could fall per hour over high ground. The area around the park, including Aberdeen, Inverness and Edinburgh, will see about 2cm per hour.
The Met Office forecast for January 19 to 28 reads: “This period is expected to see a transition, possibly lasting over several days, between the settled, dry, and often dull conditions expected over the next few days, to something more unsettled. Sunday itself is likely to be rather cloudy and cool, with outbreaks of rain in the west drifting slowly eastwards.
“The start of the following week will most likely see more settled conditions with light winds becoming re-established, with a chance of rain in both the far north and the far south, and a smaller chance that the rain could become more widespread. Later in the week, periods of much wetter and windier weather will most likely become more prevalent, from northwest to southeast, alternatively there is a very small chance of colder, drier, but perhaps wintry, easterly winds.”