A 700-mile snow bomb could hit the UK within days, fresh weather maps and charts show. According to maps from WX Charts, a 700-mile white blanket will hit everywhere from Scotland to the south coast of England at around 3pm on Wednesday, January 8.
By 6pm on January 8, around 1cm of snow is forecast to be falling each hour, covering almost all of the UK in white and causing potential disruption across the channel in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
James Madden, from Exacta Weather, explained: “The wintry, icy, and snowy conditions have been persisting in some large parts of the north overnight and into early today (Monday), and some parts of northern, central, and eastern and southern England are all at risk of this precipitation band turning wintry in places through today and into this evening, and in parts of Wales and Ireland.
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“Additionally, our last several website updates and dated postings on here, and since the week before last, have clearly stated that this snowy period would persist for several days once it started and again in parts further south from further expected low-pressure areas in this period.
“One of those low-pressure areas will arrive in and around Wednesday afternoon/evening and into early Thursday, and this will once again bring the risk of some moderate to heavy snow in parts of southern England and towards the capital.
“The current projections are also for this low pressure to be more of a southern England-only snow event unless we see some changes to drag in some parts further north between now and then.” He went on, saying: “Additionally, our several-month-ahead winter subscribers report covered a major snow event for these exact dates in early January, in addition to what we expect to be an even more memorable weather event later in January and possibly into at least early February, which we still expect to occur with even higher confidence on an already high confidence scenario due to the recent and expected cold and snow that has taken shape so nicely.”