BBC Weather issues verdict over 200-mile snow bomb hammering UK

UK weather maps have turned purple and orange as a 200-mile snow bomb hammers the country. With November progressing, there are fresh reports of a downturn in weather which could result in a teeth-chattering cold snap for the country.

With mid-November set to arrive next week, maps and charts show everywhere from Scotland to England struck, and Wales and Northern Ireland won't be spared either, as temperatures plummet and the country wakes up to a dusting.

Parts of the UK affected include Belfast, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Newcastle. Maps also show everywhere from the Home Counties and London and Hampshire could be hit, with the North West of England - Manchester in particular - under a dusting too.

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The BBC Weather team has had its say over the reports, which affect November 21 onwards. On its website, the Beeb has a weather forecast for the third full week of the month, which is the penultimate month of the year before December and Christmas.

It says: "High pressure is likely to remain well to the west, or it could shift even further north-west, of the UK, which would mean a sharper drop in temperatures below average, along with strong northerly winds and spells of heavy showers.

"These showers could turn wintry, even at lower levels. Early snowfall events combined with icy and frosty conditions overnight are also on the table. The coldest risk remains for Scotland, however. In view of a developing quite active North Atlantic pattern, it is likely that a few intense low pressure systems will move across parts of the UK leading to stormy and possibly disruptive weather, bringing with them the ongoing risk of wintry precipitation.

"After some intermittent high pressure later next week, with further frosty nights, new North Atlantic low pressure systems could approach and move in with their fronts, albeit with a gradually milder and brisk west to south-westerly flow."