UK suggest millions of Britons should brace for a barrage of that could hit several cities throughout the country.
has engulfed many places over recent days, with the recently issuing across a number of regions.
Now the latest UK weather maps from WXCharts show the UK being hammered by snow for around 48 hours as temperatures – stratechcing over several hundred miles.
On December 11 at around 12pm, snow is forecast for much of Scotland, with around 8cm set to fall near Inverness in just an hour, with blankets of snow spreading towards Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. In northern Scotland at around 6pm, around 13cm per hour is forecast to fall.
But by midnight on December 12, much of the UK weather map turns white as the snow in Scotland quickly spreads south, with the likes of Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Cardiff under threat, as well as Belfast in Northern Ireland.
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The UK could be hit by a snow blitz that could last for as long as 48 hours (Image: WXCHARTS / GETTY)
The latest UK snow map show snow falling across large parts of the UK on December 11 (Image: WXCHARTS)
The map for December 12 shows snow that fell in Scotland hours earlier quickly spreads into England (Image: WXCHARTS)
Snowfall in Scotland intensifies further, with up to 19cm per hour showing on the west coast, with all major towns and cities hit.
The maps also show snow continuing to fall over large parts of the UK throughout December 12, before it begins to ease off by around midday on December 13.
But the weather chaos won’t end there for Britons, with a bitter -7C cold blast set to hit central Scotland in the early hours of December 14.
The ‘s long-range weather forecast for December 12-26 says there are indications that towards the middle of the month, “the weather will become less settled again, with west or northwesterly types preferred”.
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The weather map for December 13 shows snow slowly easing off throughout the UK (Image: WXCHARTS)
This will bring with it wet and winder weather “with a risk of some snow, especially across northern hills”, with these conditions likely to prevail into late December.
The ‘s long-range weather forecast for Decmber 9-22 says: “There could be occasions when a colder north-westerly flow develops, consistent with the centre of low pressure moving towards the eastern North Atlantic.
“As a result, temperatures could be a little lower at times, especially in Northern Ireland and Scotland with a possibility of occasional wintry precipitation, even at lower levels.”