The UK faces a staggering 500-mile snow bomb before the end of January. Weather reports projected by WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data, shows a downturn in conditions with a wall of snow battering the country in the wake of Christmas.
WX Charts maps and chart sshow snow from Invernessshire, Midlothian and the Highlands right down to the North East of England around January 26. English counties set to be battered include Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
Counties set to “escape” snow entirely include the West Midlands, so Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the West Midlands, as well as Norfolk and Suffolk in East Anglia, and the south of England.
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A Met Office forecast from January 19 onwards explains: “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.”
The outlook, which spans into February, goes on to add: “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.”
The week by week forecast adds: “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.”
An early look at February continues: “A dominant flow from the Atlantic looks likely through this period, resulting in an unsettled, milder and windier than average period. This is likely to result in areas of rain and periods of stronger winds affecting most if not all parts of the UK at times, though with the wettest and windiest weather probably occurring towards the north and west. However, the potential for brief colder spells with associated frost, ice and snow remains, following any deep lows crossing the region.”