The UK will be battered with 90 hours of snow from Inverness to Cornwall within a fortnight, according to weather maps. WXCharts has predicted that snow will sweep in from the Atlantic to make landfall in Scotland, before it moves across the country over three days, according to weather maps by WXCharts. 

The weather agency predicted patches of light snow could hit Aberdeen on January 4 at 6am, however, the real barrage will hit 24 hours later on January 5, starting in Scotland and moving across England. Around 1 inch of snow has been forecast to fall per hour near Dundee at around 6 am, before it moves to Glasgow by early morning.

By 6pm, England will be in the firing line. Forecasts predicted the snow will move south over the west coast from Cumbria down to Manchester, although by this time the rate of snowfall will be lighter.

The following day, the UK will feel a slight respite, as concentrated patches of snow will be focused in northern Scotland and Blackpool.

However, it is the calm before the storm as another wave of snow has been forecast to hit at midnight, leading into January 7. Less than 1 inch of snow per hour could fall over Blackpool, Manchester and Yorkshire, as well as the northern tip of Scotland.

By 6am, forecasts predict the weather front will have moved from the west to cover Lincolnshire and parts of Yorkshire with around 1inch of snow. Aberdeen will be hit with a light covering, as will central Wales.

By midday on January 7, the weather front will have spread as far south as Cornwall, where a very light covering of snow has been forecast. In the east, WXCharts has predicted that around 1inch of snow will fall per hour in Norfolk.

By 6pm, England will be largely dry, with only light snow showers predicted just north of London. However, by this point Scotland will be completely covered from the northern tip as far south as Glasgow, with around 1inch of snow predicted to fall per hour.

By midnight, when WXCharts forecasts currently end, Cumbria, Northumberland and Manchester may be in the firing line, with less than an inch of snowfall predicted per hour, which could lead to an icy morning on January 8 as temperatures have been forecast to drop well below freezing.

The Met Office acknowledges that predicting snow is difficult, and its forecast differs. The weather agency’s long-range forecast from December 28 to January 6 predicts that settled and mainly dry conditions will continue for many parts of the UK in the first week of January.

However, it added there was a “small chance that more unsettled, wetter and milder weather could develop at times, particularly in the north”.