Overview
- The Met Office expects cold northerly winds between 2–11 January, with wintry showers, often snow, for coastlines exposed to onshore flow and nearby inland areas.
- Southern and central inland areas are forecast to stay mostly dry but cold, with subtle wind shifts dictating which coastal stretches see the most frequent showers.
- The Met Office also highlights bands of rain, sleet and snow moving south that could deliver more prolonged wintry precipitation to some inland zones before slightly milder air attempts to edge in from the west later in the period.
- BBC Weather projects most early-January precipitation as rain with snow mainly on higher ground—most likely in the Highlands—and says outcomes depend on the placement of nearby high pressure.
- WX Charts using Met Desk data depicts a potential 3–7 January snow spell in Scotland and the North East and a separate run showing 8 January risk across many English counties, though suggested high local totals reported elsewhere carry limited confidence.