Met Office speaks out over 513-mile 'wall of snow' smashing into UK next week

The UK faces a 513-mile long wall of snow in December with the exact date it hammers into England predicted by new weather maps. Modelling from WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data, shows an "enormous" wall of the white stuff spreading into the country from December 4.

WX Charts shows the flurries arriving within days - with December 4 bringing with it an icy front to the UK. The front will hover over Northern Ireland and north western areas in England, as well as Scotland and Wales, as the mercury drops to as low as -1C.

An early Met Office forecast from December 5 onwards casts doubt on the nature of widespread flurries, though. It explains: "A changeable start to this period, with frontal systems moving east across the UK and bringing spells of rain and strong winds for many areas, though interspersed with quieter interludes.

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"Overall, rain is most likely across the north and west, while southeast parts may be relatively drier, though not completely dry. Moving into the second week of December, there are signs of more settled weather developing more widely, especially across the south and southwest of the UK.

"This may well bring a spell of mainly dry conditions in these areas, probably with patchy overnight frost and fog. Any outbreaks of rain and wind in this period are more likely to affect the north. Temperatures will vary around average for December, with some milder and some colder days."

Netweather TV's forecast for December 2 onwards adds: "High pressure will dominate the weather early in the week. With a relatively cold air mass within the high pressure, it probably won’t be a repeat of the relentless anticyclonic gloom that many of us had during the first half of November, but sunshine amounts are likely to be variable, with overnight fog and low cloud potentially persisting through the day in some regions.

"Temperatures early in the week are likely to be generally below normal except in northern and western Scotland. There is potential for the weather to turn milder, wetter and more changeable from the west late in the week with southerly and south-westerly winds and high pressure moving away to the south-east, but it is currently uncertain whether this change will arrive late in Week 3 or nearer mid-December.