UK snow: Met Office warns Britain could be set for 20cm during bone-chilling -9C ice blast

Brits should brace themselves for a blanket of snow as high as 20cm as a -9C ice blast hits the UK.

Next week, parts of Britain will be hit with a frosty spell that will result in heavy snowfall, turning weather maps blue and white.

In the north, temperatures will plummet to a chilling -9C, whilst a snow depth as high as 20cm is expected in Scotland.

The snowfall and ice blast will impact Scotland and parts of northern England, with the frostiest day coming on December 21.

The Met Office forecast for 17-26 December says: “It now looks probable that there will be at least one short-lived colder interlude next week, with a period of north or northwesterly winds that could bring some snow and ice, especially in the north.”

The rest of the UK will see more settled weather, with the south seeing above-average temperatures for this time of year.

Describing the long-range forecast, the weather office said: “For most locations, more settled weather continues into Sunday with high pressure close to the southwest of the UK.

“Though northern and western Scotland likely remaining in a more wet and windy, but exceptionally mild regime. Settled conditions in the south with well above average temperatures here too, but cloudy at times with some patchy light rain, mainly near western coasts and over hills.

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