A new, sweeping cold weather front is making its way to the UK and will bring heavy snow, weather maps suggest. The threatening Arctic weather is on track to freeze a whopping 13 UK cities.
Spanning 578 miles from Oban in Scotland to Plymouth, the huge snow bomb is on track to hit the country during the first week of March. New weather maps from WXCHARTS depict a dark purple mass across large swathes of the UK, indicating a plunge into bone-chilling temperatures, with some counties bracing for an icy blast. The Arctic weather will have no mercy, with the worst-hit areas seeing snow depths of 59cm.
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Weather maps predict the freezing weather will smash into the country on March 5 at 6pm.Â
Vast swathes of Scotland will be blanketed in snow. The North West, North East as well as Yorkshire and the Humber will also see a large dumping of snow.
By midnight on March 6, Perth and Kinross will see the largest amount of snow with snow depths forecast to reach 15cm. Argyll and Bute as well as Stirling will see snow depths hit 10cm.
In England, the Midlands could see 5cm of snowfall every hour, whilst the north could see up to 3cm.
North and Mid Wales will see snow depths hit 5cm, and West Wales could also see a light dusting of snow. The snow will fall as far as Devon and Cornwall with 5mm forecast per hour.Â
The snow will fall as far as Devon and Cornwall with 5mm forecast per hour.Â
By 6pm on March 6, snow depths in Perth and Kinross could hit a whopping 59cm. Argyll and Bute will be covered in 14cm of snow, and central Scotland will see up to 7cm.
In England, Cumbria will be the worst hit with snow depths forecast to hit 17cm, whilst Durham might see up to 10cm.
Snow depths are forecast to hit 7cm in North Wales, and Central Wales will likely see peaks of 4cm of snow, and so will Bath in the South West of England.