Snow weather forecast Met Office

There are lots of reports that the UK could be hit by snow next week, but the most recent Met Office 10-day forecast has explained that different models are ...

Towards the end of the month a north-south split may develop with high pressure across the south with more changeable conditions likely in the north. Likely to become more unsettled through the period, with Atlantic weather systems perhaps bringing spells of wet and windy weather, interspersed with brief drier and brighter interludes. Likely to become windy in the north and west with a risk of coastal gales. So it gives us a measure of how uncertain the forecast is. We've got a dominant high to the east, and the Jetstream really can't get around it. It splits and there's a branch that dives to the south, another branch that goes up over the UK and in between these weather systems, there are low pressure systems.

Weather charts have hinted snow could hit the UK from the mid part of March. March 11 has been identified as a date for potential flurries by WXCharts.

Stay up to date with the latest celebrity and TV news with showbiz updates from our daily newsletter here. The outlook until March 17 suggests it will be windy with a risk of gales, just days after Storm Dudley, Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin wreaked havoc. But any reports of a 'snowbomb' or new 'Beast from the East' look wide of the mark.

Areas of higher ground in the north of England and Scotland are most likely to see snow, forecasters warned. The change in weather comes as an area of high pressure that has lingered over the UK in recent days, ...

There will be plenty of sunshine from Saturday onwards. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. On the other side of the Pennines, the northeast will be colder and wetter, with highs of just 6C or 7C and overnight frost. “From the middle of next week that high pressure system will move out, and it looks like a low pressure system will come in from the Atlantic,” she said. The Midlands will be grey and cloudy with a few pockets of rain or drizzle on Saturday, becoming brighter with sunny spells. “Towards the end of the month, a north-south split may develop with high pressure across the south and more changeable conditions likely in the north,” the long-term forecast said.

The Met office is predicting a bitterly cold weekend with temperatures dropping as low -5C while there are freezing conditions up and down the country ...

Dry and sunny in north. Dry with clear periods and widespread frost in north, with some freezing fog patches. "Temperatures looking to be rather below normal and perhaps feeling cooler in the wind. This is likely to include clearer weather with showers across all areas." "It’s further east where we are going to have this cloud and rain. There is likely to be a east-west divide with cloud and rain to the east of the country where a weather front persists.