{"id":270695,"date":"2026-01-06T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:59:08","slug":"uk-snow-latest-as-maps-show-london-to-devon-disappear-in-battering-weather-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270695\/","title":{"rendered":"UK snow latest as maps show London to Devon ‘disappear’ in battering | Weather | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather charts have suggested that the UK is in for a huge swathe of snow as temperatures drop to -10C<\/a>. Scotland, as is usually the case, will experience the mercury at its lowest in the coming days, WXCharts suggests, as minus double figures appear on a map for January 9.<\/p>\n

Further south, maps suggest that a huge blanket of snow will loom over the south east, south west, the English midlands and a lot of Wales<\/a>. It looks as though it will stretch from Devon just into East Anglia and up past Stoke-on-Trent, stopping just before reaching Manchester.<\/p>\n

The Met Office<\/a> forecasts “a mixture of rain, sleet and snow” for January 8 to 10 that will “move across the country at times with a risk of strong winds”. Experts add that Brits should expect conditions to remain cold with frontal systems pushing in from the west.<\/p>\n

Meteorologists look at three main indicators when forecasting snow, the Met Office adds: where the air has come from, very heavy precipitation and when warm air meets cold air.<\/p>\n

Specialists add: “If air has come from a warmer area, or has spent a long time over mild water, then it would be harder to generate snow.<\/p>\n

“If it\u2019s coming from a cold region, often the north, then there\u2019s a chance of snow being a possibility.”<\/p>\n

Those in the know highlight that most precipitation in the clouds starts off as snow or “supercooled” raindrops, but this often melts before it hits the ground.<\/p>\n

“However, in winter, intense precipitation can keep temperatures lower closer to the ground, increasing the chance of heavy rainfall turning into snow,” the Met Office says.<\/p>\n

“Presenters often talk about weather fronts between warm and cold air,” it adds.<\/p>\n

“In the winter, these fronts can introduce the moisture and conditions for snow to fall.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s often a fine line between who sees snow and who sees rain, which is one of the reasons forecasting snow can be difficult.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weather charts have suggested that the UK is in for a huge swathe of snow as temperatures drop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,107468,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,9344,7,8,138020,138019,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-270695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cold-weather","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-snow","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-uk-weather","23":"tag-weather-maps","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115849459367705359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}