Weather maps show large parts of the country covered in snow (Image: WXCharts)
Britain is celebrating the start of 2025 set to envelop the nation in a matter of hours, but one corner of England looks like it could escape.
At the time of writing a covers the whole of England from 12pm on Saturday until 11.59pm on Sunday.
Almost every inch of the country is with new maps from WXCharts showing a wall of snow extending from Devon in the far south right up to the far north of Scotland.
But according to the charts, and the maps on the website, Cornwall looks set to escape the snow and just receive a deluge of rain instead.
Yellow warnings were also in place for ice and snow in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland last night, with the north west of England also getting a warning for today (Friday) until 10am.
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Weather map showing snow at 6pm on January 4 (Image: WXCharts )
But it’s tomorrow (Saturday) when the whole of England and Wales gets a snow and ice yellow warning from noon until nearly midnight on Sunday, according to the maps. Scotland then gets the same alert from midnight on Sunday until noon on Monday.
Looking further ahead, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued cold weather health alerts for all of England ahead of a week of freezing temperatures.
Amber alerts have been issued from 12pm on Thursday until January 8, meaning a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions, is likely, the UKHSA warned.
Temperatures could fall as low as -8C on Thursday night in rural southern Scotland and northern England, the said. It will also be cold in rural Wales and the south west of England with -6C expected.
About 5cm of snow is expected widely across the Midlands, Wales and northern England, with as much as 20-30cm over high ground in Wales and the Pennines, the forecaster added. Strong winds could lead to snow drifts in some areas, and freezing rain as temperatures creep up could add to the risk of ice.
meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “At the moment we’ve issued a very large snow warning for Saturday until Monday but it doesn’t mean that everywhere within that warning could see snow, it’s just a heads-up there could be some impacts.”
On Thursday, London councils activated an emergency accommodation protocol for people sleeping rough in freezing conditions.
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Weather map for 9pm on January 4 (Image: WXCharts )
Regions of England under a yellow weather warning for snow from 12pm on Saturday until 11.59pm on Sunday, according to the
East Midlands
Derby
Derbyshire
Leicester
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
Rutland
East of England
Bedford
Cambridgeshire
Central Bedfordshire
Essex
Hertfordshire
Luton
Norfolk
Peterborough
Southend-on-Sea
Suffolk
Thurrock
London & South East England
Bracknell Forest
Buckinghamshire
East Sussex
Greater London
Hampshire
Kent
Medway
Milton Keynes
Oxfordshire
Reading
Slough
Surrey
West Berkshire
West Sussex
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wokingham
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Weather map for midnight on January 5 (Image: WXCharts )
North East England
Darlington
Durham
Gateshead
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Northumberland
Redcar and Cleveland
South Tyneside
Stockton-on-Tees
Sunderland
North West England
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
Cumbria
Greater Manchester
Halton
Lancashire
Merseyside
Warrington
South West England
Bath and North East Somerset
Bristol
Devon
Dorset
Gloucestershire
North Somerset
Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Swindon
Wiltshire
West Midlands
Herefordshire
Shropshire
Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent
Telford and Wrekin
Warwickshire
West Midlands Conurbation
Worcestershire
Yorkshire & Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire
Kingston upon Hull
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire
North Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
York
Sunday January 5, 3am weather map (Image: WXCharts )
Met Office five-day forecast
This Evening and Tonight:
A cold and frosty night for all with icy stretches possible, especially in the north, where wintry showers will persist in coastal areas exposed to the northerly winds. Patchy freezing fog is possible in the west under clear skies.
Friday:
Cold again with plenty of winter sunshine on offer, especially in the south and east. Wintry showers affecting northern and northwestern coasts, winds staying generally light.
Outlook for Saturday to Monday:
Turning windy with rain, sleet and snow spreading northeast later on Saturday and into Sunday, turning milder in the south. Colder but drier again on Monday with wintry showers.