WX Charts showing snow across the North East(Image: WX Charts)

Met Office warns 'significant and disruptive' snow could hit North East this week

It is predicted that a snow storm will approach the North East in the early hours of Thursday morning

by · ChronicleLive

The Met Office warns that "significant and disruptive" wintry weather could soon hit the North East.

As the week goes on, freezing conditions will sweep in from the north, according to the forecaster - which heightens the risk of snow. While southern and central areas of the UK will stay mild at the start of the week, as much as 10-15cm of snow is likely in northern Scotland - before spreading across the rest of the country.

Weather maps from WXCharts predict that a snow storm will approach the North East in the early hours of Thursday morning (February 8) with the worst of the snowfall coming between 6am and 6pm. The Met Office has also warned of the prospect of snow, with their forecast for February 7 to February 16, reading: "Initially unsettled with cloud and rain across a still mild south whilst clearer and colder conditions across the north with some wintry showers in the far north."

Tom Morgan, Met Office Operational Meteorologist, told the Mirror: "As we go through into Tuesday and Wednesday, we start to see a cold front moving down from the north. At this stage, it's still fairly mild in the south. Towards Thursday and Friday, there will be a 'battleground' scenario set up across the UK.

"We'll see milder conditions trying to return northwards, and colder air still in north and central parts of the UK. Along that boundary we'll see probably some significant and disruptive snow."

While Tom said it's still too early to know exactly where this snow will fall by the end of the week, current projections show that the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be the worst affected. He added: "At this stage, there's still some uncertainty as to where that boundary will be. It looks like northern England, the Pennine regions are most prone to seeing the heaviest snow - possibly southern Scotland and Northern Ireland as well.

"More generally, it's central parts of Britain through Thursday that are likely to see the wintriest weather. For the exact areas, it's a little bit early for details on that and that's why we haven't got any weather warnings in place."

It comes after a yellow weather warning was in place over 65mph gales on Wednesday (January 31), hot on the heels of Storm Isha and Storm Jocelyn last week. The weather warning was in place between 9am and 5pm on the day, covering the North East, Scotland, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and parts of Northern Ireland.

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