Snow may fall as far as the South and East of England this month, according to weather maps, with a 24-hour barrage of snow being forecast. Next Wednesday, March 12, weather maps generated on March 5 by WXCharts, which uses Met Desk data, show snow will cover the East coast of the UK, from Scotland down to the South of England, due to a storm brewing over the North Sea, which will persist until midday the following day.

The East coast will wake up to snow at 6:00am, spanning from Edinburgh to Ipswich, engulfing Newcastle, Middlesbrough, York, and potentially Leeds, at a rate of up to 1cm per hour. The North of Scotland will also be similarly impacted over the highlands and Aberdeen. By midday, the storm will have moved further inland, covering the majority of Scotland with up to 3cm of snowfall predicted per hour, while in England the snow will turn to rain in some areas, the maps suggest.

By midday on Wednesday, the storm will have moved further inland. Snowfall is predicted over the majority of Scotland except for its southwest coast, with up to 3cm per hour.

On the eastern coast of England, snow will turn into rain as the storm makes its way over the North Sea, the maps suggest. The snow is expected to move over Kent and East Sussex over the coastal towns of Dover to Brighton, as well as the whole of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Later on in the day at 6:00pm, the storm will sweep further south. Southeast England is expected to experience downpours instead of snow, including London, Brighton, Oxford and maybe even Portsmouth, however, as colder temperatures come in towards the evening, around 1cm of snow will fall in the North covering South and East Yorkshire, at a rate of 1cm per hour.

By this point, Newcastle will have about 1-5cm of snow covering the ground, as well as Edinburgh and the highlands in Scotland, according to the WXCharts forecast.

Moving into Thursday, March 13, by midday the majority of the snowfall will have stopped in the north, leaving behind around 1cm of snow covering the ground from Edinburgh down to East Yorkshire, according to the maps.

Lincolnshire could get some snowfall at a rate up to 1cm per hour, but it will have turned into showers in the rest of England over London and Kent.

The Met Office prediction between Monday, March 10, and Wednesday, March 19, suggests a few showers are likely along coasts, and temperatures will likely be below normal.

It said: “Cloudy with outbreaks of rain in places on Monday, the rain easing and clearing southwards during the course of the day. Clearer weather with sunny spells and a few coastal showers will follow from the north. These clearer conditions will become established across the whole of the UK by Tuesday as high pressure builds from the northwest.

“This will lead to fine and dry conditions for many through the rest of next week, although a few showers are likely along coasts. Temperatures will likely be below normal. Through the following weekend and into the week after, conditions may slowly become milder and more changeable with some unsettled spells bringing periods of rain and strong winds.”