UK weather maps turn white as -4C snow moves in 'next week'
UK weather maps have turned white with a snow risk next week. Maps and charts produced this weekend indicate a 80 per cent chance of flurries of the white stuff amid speculation temperatures could plunge to as low as MINUS FOUR.
Next Friday, October 11, is earmarked as the possibility for the worst of the weather. Netweather TV charts says there's an 80 per cent chance of snow falling in some areas of the Scottish Highlands during the second full week of October.
WX Charts also reports a high chance of snow in northwest Scotland on October 11. The Met Office forecast from October 4 onwards explains: "High pressure initially presides over the bulk of the UK, with more widely drier and brighter conditions and just a few isolated showers. However, low pressure over the Atlantic becomes increasingly influential through Friday and into the weekend with areas of rain crossing through, although the timing of this transition is uncertain.
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"Following an unsettled weekend a mixture of unsettled showery spells and longer periods of rain is most likely, though still with some brighter spells with the driest weather in the south as winds most likely arrive from the north.
"Temperatures probably near or below-average at first, recovering to above-average for a time over the weekend, but then likely trending below-average for the following week." The October 14 forecast onwards adds: "Confidence is rather low throughout this period, but there is a chance of more settled conditions during the second half the month with potentially longer periods of dry weather developing, bringing the chance of fog and frost at night."
It says: "However, there remains a reasonable chance that wetter, more unsettled conditions could continue. Temperatures are most likely to be close to or slightly above average, especially so later in the month."