UK weather maps show 550-mile blast heading for Britain with two days of snow

The UK is set to be hit with a 550-mile blast of snow from Norway, due to last two days over next week – bombshell new weather maps show.

WXCharts has forecast a wave of sintery weather heading for the UK on February 6 and 7, moving across the length of the country.

There will be snow from north Scotland to Birmingham, with depths of up to 4cm in south Scotland and north England.

Temperatures will drop below zero in some places, with lows of -2C in the Scottish Highlands and the Grampians and 0C in south Scotland, north England and Northern Ireland.

The Midlands and Wales will see temperatures of 3C and south England will drop as low as 5C.

Met Office five-day forecast

It will stay dry for most of tonight with clear spells and a frost in places. Fog patches may form where cloud breaks in southeast England. Cloud and rain will spread into northwest Scotland later with strengthening winds in the far north.

Heavy rain and gales will spread across the north on Wednesday. It will be drier in the south and breezy, but turn increasingly cloudy with outbreaks of patchy rain in the southwest.

Largely cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle over the next few days, although staying mostly dry in the east. Breezy, mainly in the north, and fairly mild.

Met Office long-range forecast

For the first fortnight of February, there will be changeable conditions with spells of mild, wet and windy weather punctuated by drier, cooler interludes.

The northwest is likely to see the heaviest and most persistent rain, while the southeast will tend to be drier overall. It will also be largely cloudy with the best of any sunshine in the east.

Colder conditions could become established more widely, with an increased chance of wintry weather should Atlantic clouds and rain be forced to track across the south of the country.