UK set for snow bomb and six counties in England face being covered

The UK faces a snow bomb BEFORE Christmas and six counties in England will face a dusting. Multiple areas will be blanketed in snow by December 23, according to WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data to project the latest weather.

Scotland will be worst-hit, the maps show, from Wick and Inverness to Aberdeenshire. Glasgow and Edinburgh are also at risk. In England, major cities like Newcastle and Middlesbrough in the North East of England could be hammered, as well as Staffordshire, including Stoke on Trent, and also large parts of Yorkshire.

Essex and Suffolk are also at risk, as well as Cumbria and Northumberland, taking the number of counties to six. Giving his verdict, James Madden, from Exacta Weather, said: "An expected stormy period of weather (potentially severe in places) and further, more potent snow prospects originally for in and around 23-27 December from our several-month-ahead and unchanged subscribers report is currently looking like arriving and being more prominent for around Sunday (22nd December) of this week instead.

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"This will also bring a significantly heightened risk for more notable and widespread snow prospects across the northern half of the country at the very least (possibly a bit further with any slight changes between now and then), in among some widespread stormy conditions for elsewhere from around Saturday evening and into early Sunday on our current projections, but particularly more so across the northern half of the country.

"I also wouldn’t be surprised to see another named storm developing from elsewhere here (something we have been covering for several months around these exact dates). Unfortunately for snow or, fortunately for more settled weather lovers, this would then look to set the way for some normal to even mild temperatures and potentially more settled weather around the Christmas period on the current main third-party repeated projections of recent days.

"Additionally, the same several-month-ahead winter subscribers report for this winter also clearly stated this as a possibility for around the Christmas period (less cold or mild weather) if we were to experience any limited or later stratospheric interference in this period (I will also publish the full report soon for all to see).

"However, another potentially snowy and stormy period could still follow on from this, and for in and around the final days of December and to start 2025."