Overview
- WXCharts projections released on December 24 depict snow spreading from Scotland across large areas of the UK around January 5 to 7, with a multi-day episode possible.
- The maps suggest local totals up to about 22 inches in northwest Scotland and around 8 inches west of Manchester, with light snow reaching as far south as Cornwall by January 7.
- Scenario maps indicate as much as roughly 90 hours of snowfall in places, with bands affecting northwest and northeast England, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- The Met Office long-range outlook keeps high pressure dominant through the end of the year, with only an increased chance of more changeable, potentially wintry conditions developing in early January.
- For the near term, the Met Office has a 20-hour yellow wind warning on Christmas Day for 45–65 mph gusts and possible travel and power disruption, and reports flag freezing rain for parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.