If you squint hard enough, the frost on your car almost looks like a layer of snow that magically appeared overnight. But if you’ve been dreaming of a real white Christmas, you might just be in luck, because the UK is about to get hit with a wall of snow, apparently.
That’s right, forecaster WXCharts has predicted a 500-mile wall of snow spanning from Scotland down to the north of England will descend on the UK this week. We’ve already seen some pretty chilly temperatures outside (and in a rare turn of events, London even got a glimpse of snow) but the weather forecasters anticipate parts of the country could drop to below 5C this week, reaching a frosty -7C in the Highlands.
According to WXCharts, parts of Scotland and northern England can expect snowfall to arrive anytime between 6pm and 9pm tomorrow (December 3).
Where will it snow?
From the Highlands down to Inverness and Edinburgh, wrap up and keep warm. WXCharts predicts that Scotland is likely to receive most snowfall. Cities in the northeast of England including Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Sunderland will also apparently make up part of the ‘snowy wall’, as well as Manchester and Liverpool in the northwest.
For those living in more southerly cities including Birmingham, London and Cardiff, rain is more likely than snow.
What can I expect?
The weather in the UK can be unpredictable, but it’s worth bearing in mind that WXCharts is pretty much the only forecaster predicting snow as early as tomorrow.
According to AccuWeather, it’s rain and wind for most of the week in Scotland, with snow expected on Saturday morning (December 7) in Edinburgh before reaching Inverness on Sunday morning (December 8), as temperatures fall to a nippy 1C. It’s the same over on BBC Weather, which has predicted a snowy start to the weekend in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
And while we don't want to spoil your dreams of a white Christmas, the Met Office and Weather Channel reckon it won’t snow in England or Wales this week, with rain and windy conditions expected to stick around for a while.
If you’re after a proper white blanket of the stuff, you’d be best off heading to one of Britain’s 10 snowiest places.
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