Maps show which areas of the UK can expect snow this week

Parts of the country are already blanketed in snow – and it’s expected to continue falling throughout the week.

Scotland, Manchester, Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire and Newcastle woke up to snow this morning and many other places are expected to expect the same soon.

These include London, Bath, Birmingham, Belfast, Londonderry, Cardiff, Swansea and all of Northern Scotland.

They are all under a yellow weather warning for snow and ice today, with London, Oxford, Birmingham and Northern Ireland expected to start clearing up overnight.

But snow will continue to move south tomorrow, hitting Plymouth and Exeter while staying in Newcastle and Scotland.

The weather warning is due to be lifted from southern England, Wales and parts of northern Scotland on Thursday but will cover almost all of northern England.

These include Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield. All of Northern Ireland is also threatened with snow again that day.

Friday looks the same, with rain and snow moving north this weekend.

The Met Office said the cold snap could last for two weeks and temperatures in parts of the UK would not hit double digits until Thursday.

The mercury could drop to -15C in some areas of the Scottish Highlands – where up to 16 inches of snow could accumulate.

The Met Office’s chief meteorologist Dan Suri warned the weather is causing travel disruptions as some rural communities in the north risk being completely cut off.

He explained that Britain is facing an Arctic maritime air mass – a low pressure area – coming in from the north.

The lowest temperature on record in the UK so far this year is -10.4C, recorded at Drumnadrochit near Inverness in the Highlands in the early hours of January 19.

Mr Suri said snow was not the only danger this week, stressing that ice also posed many risks.

He said: “Further south, winter hazards will develop, with parts of England and Wales hit with patches of icy patches and snow in places this evening, and more snow likely to develop in parts of the south early Wednesday.”

The UK Health Security Agency issued a cold weather warning last weekend, placing North West England and Yorkshire under a Level 3 alert.

This means there is a 90 percent chance of extreme cold, ice or heavy snowfall, which could increase the health risk for vulnerable people. The rest of the UK was classified below Tier 2.

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