According to the Netweather forecast for Thursday, colder air is expected to take hold by Friday and some snow will start to fall.
The forecast reads: A wild start this morning with gusts over 60mph. Overnight a deep low pressure has moved past northern Scotland, trailing its weather fronts over the UK bringing a spell of rain. As these frontal bands clear away over the North Sea there will be clearer, brighter skies with a rash of blustery showers from the Atlantic. By tomorrow, as colder air takes hold, some of these showers will turn wintry with snow on northern hills. Further rain or showers from the west into the weekend but less so by Sunday.
| UPDATED: 19:22, Mon, Mar 8, 2021
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Heavy rain and strong gales are on course to smash Britain over the next 48 to 72 hours before wintry showers and freezing temperatures take over. Snow risk maps produced by Netweather.TV show areas of the UK turning red as the risk of wintry showers accelerates. Separate models produced by WxCharts show up to nine inches (25cm) of snow could fall in Scotland over higher ground by the weekend.
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“Temperatures are expected to trend close to average, although some overnight frosts are still possible, mainly in northern parts of the country.”
Last month saw the highest and lowest temperatures of the UK’s winter season recorded, in one of the most up-and-down Februaries of recent years.
Cold conditions from the east brought temperatures right down to a freezing -23C at Braemar in Aberdeenshire on February 11.
That was the lowest temperature in the UK since 1955 and the lowest in February since 1955, according to the Met Office.
Forecasters said a southerly flow brought warm weather from the Canaries in Spain and Africa, which led to the season’s highest temperature at 18.4C in Suffolk on February 24.
The snow risk map shows much of Scotland covered by a 85-100 percent snow risk at 6pm.
This snow risk area increases by Sunday afternoon and starts to edge further south, with parts of northern England also covered by a high risk of snow.
From the early hours of Monday morning the whole of Wales and parts of the Midlands are covered by a high snow risk, as indicated by the dark red colouring.
UK snow: Wintry showers are set to return next month (Image: Netweather)
UK snow radar: Snow is forecast in Wales and Scotland on Monday March 8 (Image: Netweather)
The Met Office has issued five weather warnings for wind and rain over the next 24 hours, with the North West and Scotland likely to see the worst of the conditions.
They include two “danger to life” amber alerts for central and eastern areas of Scotland, with the Met Office warning homes and businesses are likely to be flooded.
NetWeather.TV forecaster Paul Michealwaite said “pulses of heavier more persistent rain” will become more prominent from Monday evening, before another wet-weather front closes in from the Atlantic.
He said: “Late Monday and into the start of Tuesday, the next Atlantic system will approach, with rain and strong winds arriving in from the west.