48 counties in England and Scotland to be hit by Beast from the East 2025
The Beast from the East is looming with the UK warned to batten down the hatches and prepare for the arrival of heavy snowfall. Weather data from WX Charts.com shows snow arriving from the east from the early morning of February 17.
It lands first in Scotland before making its way south. Areas at risk include Aberdeenshire and Angus in Scotland, as well as Argyll, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Fife, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peebleshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland and West Lothian.
In England, counties set for a dusting include Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire.
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Giving his verdict, Exacta Weather's James Madden said: "Cool to cold week ahead, with snow showers in places midweek before an Easterly influence and widespread snow showers for most within our earlier predicted dates... The upcoming week will begin on a fairly calm and settled note as thanks to the expected influence of high pressure rises allowing for the formation of fog and frosts.
"Throughout Tuesday evening and into early Wednesday will also see wintry snow showers forming sporadically across large parts of Ireland and then later to parts of the west of Scotland and northern England. Additionally, it could very well be that some of this wintry weather could become a little more extensive than current indicators.
"Towards the end of the working week and into next weekend will see more of an Easterly and/or northerly/NE influence starting to take shape across our shores to deliver at least a several day cold and very snowy period for our exact quoted and much earlier dates starting around "February 8-15"."
Mr Madden said: "At first, they could be more hit-and-miss snow showers across eastern and southern parts of the country before becoming more intense in nature and more widespread during the above quoted period. With this major cold and snow on the very near horizon due to the awakening of cold easterly winds and others starting to pick up on this, we can refer back to our several day ahead projections for this below.
"Additionally, our long-range and unchanged winter forecast from several months earlier also opted for this type of development or a memorable weather event of this type during and around the second half of January and/or early February and the exact causality factors behind it (I will also publish this shortly)..."