UK faces 300-mile snow storm on what will be 'darkest day of 2024'

The UK faces a 300-mile snow storm on what will be the "darkest day of 2024", it is feared. The UK faces a 48-hour wintry blast with flurries of the white stuff set to accumulate across the country amid a cold snap ahead of Christmas and the New Year.

WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data, shows on Saturday, December 21, flurries of the white stuff across the country. The snow will hit Scotland before moving southwards and hitting northern England as well as the Midlands.

Netweather TV said: "Changeable but sunny, quite cold at times until around Christmas, probably milder towards the New Year and becoming dry in the south." It added: "Mean temperatures will be above normal everywhere, probably around 1C above normal in the north of Scotland but around 2C above normal in most parts of England and Wales.

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"It is forecast to be wetter than normal in western Scotland, especially north-west Scotland, and in the west of Northern Ireland, but for most other regions it will be drier than normal, particularly in the east of Britain and in southern England.

"Sunshine totals are forecast to be above normal in eastern Britain, particularly coastal counties of eastern Scotland and north-east England, and near normal in most western counties, although the west and especially north-west of Scotland, and much of Northern Ireland, will probably see below average sunshine."

Looking ahead to January, Exacta Weather's James Madden has said: "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. Additionally, the same winter 2024/25 forecast also clearly depicted that the coldest and most snowiest part of this winter would occur in January 2025 and for which part and why, and it also noted it as a “potentially memorable weather period,” and if any part of this winter will resemble a big freeze or a decent run of widespread snow events, then this is the period it will occur within (something I have been covering repeatedly for several months now)."