The latest weather maps show rain bucketing over the UK over the next few days. (Image: wxcharts.com / Getty)
Multiple major UK cities are bracing for snow as blizzards sweep across the British Isles in the coming days, suggest.
Forecast data collected by shows rain and snow striking across the nation from Thursday, January 23, to Friday January 26, with snowflakes falling on multiple major cities.
The maps suggest the the three-day blizzard blitz could begin on Thursday, with thick blobs of purple shown looming large parts of all four nations in the days ahead.
Scottish cities set for snow include , Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee and Dunfermline, with only Inverness and Aberdeen avoiding it.
Over this period, various cities in Northern England could get snowed on, including Newcastle, Carlisle, Sunderland, Durham and possibly Ripon and York.
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Precipitation, temperature, and pressure overview on Friday, Jan 24 (Image: WXCHARTS.COM)
The maps suggest Northern Ireland could see widespread snowfall on Saturday (Image: WXCHARTS.COM)
Meanwhile, almost the whole of Northern Ireland could see snow on Saturday, with Armagh, Belfast, Londonderry, Lisburn, and Newry affected.
During this three-day period, snow also appears to hit Swansea and Wrexham in as well as Derby, Oxford and Peterborough in England, though forecasts from days out change frequently.
The ‘s three-five-day forecast, which covers Thursday, January 23 to Saturday, January 25, predicts conditions will turn “unsettled on Thursday with a band of rain and strong winds moving eastwards”.
It adds: “Wet and windy on Friday, with a mix of sunshine and blustery showers on Saturday.”
Its long-range forecast, from Saturday to Monday, February 3rd suggests an “unsettled and disturbed period of weather across much of the country, but especially for northern and western parts, with southern and eastern areas probably missing the worst of the conditions a lot of the time”.
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Map showing snow affecting areas of western Scotland and parts of southern England. (Image: wxcharts.com)
All four nations could be in for snow in the days ahead, the maps suggest. (Image: wxcharts.com)
“Over the weekend, after Friday’s deep low and associated stormy weather, another system looks likely to move towards the UK from the Atlantic, driven in by the strong jet stream.
“There is the potential for further weather warnings or even a named storm at some point. Temperatures overall, are likely to end up being around normal or slightly above average, though given the strength of wind at times, it probably won’t feel especially mild, especially when it’s raining too.”
A yellow warning for wind has will come into affect on Friday through to Saturday for parts of Scotland and the whole of Northern Ireland, with the warning residents that flying debris presents a potential danger to life.
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