WX Charts maps and charts, which have been projected using Met Desk modelling, show snowfall across Friday, January 24, Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26.

UK faces 4cm snow per hour this week with 'exact times' flurries fall announced

by · Birmingham Live

The UK faces 4cm of snow PER HOUR this week - as the exact times flurries hit emerge. WX Charts maps and charts, which have been projected using Met Desk modelling, show snowfall across Friday, January 24, Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26.

Maps have turned different colours as the radar checks snowfall across the country this week. Scotland could see as much as 4 to 7cm of snow on the final map of the weekend, the latest from the meteorologists and forecasters have said.

Scotland faces being worst-hit by the weather front, which will hammer into the country north of the border across Saturday and Sunday. Despite flurries starting on Friday, Sunday looks set to be the worst of the weather this weekend.

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Wales is also anticipated to see flurries and wake up to a blanket of the white stuff. In the short term, a Met Office forecast for Tuesday (January 21) explains: "A rather cloudy day across the central swathe of the UK with outbreaks of rain. Elsewhere, fog patches gradually lifting allowing some bright or sunny spells to develop, especially across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

"Temperatures near or slightly below average." Looking ahead to Tuesday night, it adds: "Band of patchy rain remaining slow-moving across central areas overnight. Increasingly cloudy to the south with some fog developing. Clear spells and a patchy frost developing across the north."

A Wednesday (January 22) outlook goes on, adding: "Morning fog patches across the north lifting with a mix of sunshine and scattered showers. Rather cloudy elsewhere with outbreaks of rain becoming concentrated across the southeast of England."

The outlook for Thursday to Saturday, spanning January 23 to January 25, adds: "Turning unsettled on Thursday with a band of rain and strong winds moving eastwards. Wet and windy on Friday, with a mix of sunshine and blustery showers on Saturday."