‘Beast from the East awakens’ – snow maps present ‘3cm per hour’ flurries this week

“The Beast from the East [is] finally awakening” based on a number one climate forecaster, and “widespread snow” is tipped to brush throughout the UK this week.

Exacta Weather forecaster James Madden mentioned in an replace in the present day (Monday, February 26) situations will flip “colder” and extra “unsettled” from later this week, with Thursday (February 29) and Friday (March 1) bringing a “risk for widespread snow showers… even to lower levels”.

Madden defined “an extensive area of low pressure” is anticipated to develop to the north of Scotland, resulting in the preliminary snow. Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England, Wales and presumably south-west England are all within the firing line based on the forecaster.

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Snow is coming this week! (inventory)
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Madden mentioned: “Low pressure will then stay in charge heading to the weekend and early next week and this will mix in with the much colder conditions across our shores and the delivery of further widespread snow events during early March as any showers merge into some longer spells of snow across large parts of the country including parts of southern England on our current indications.”



Some components of the nation might see 3cm of snow per hour (inventory)
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And there may very well be extra to come back after this weekend with Madden warning of “a potentially very cold and strong easterly pattern” creating – the so-called Beast from the East.

He expects this to carry “further widespread snow” subsequent week. He added: “[This] is likely to be the most potent snowy period of this winter/spring.”



Snow creating from Scotland in a single day on Thursday and early on Friday
(Image: WX Charts)

Advanced climate modelling maps from WX Charts seem to line up with Madden’s forecast for snow this week. They present snow creating from Scotland in a single day on Thursday and early on Friday. Northern Ireland and northern components of England will even see among the white stuff, with snow falling at a price of round 3cm per hour the place flurries are most intense.

Maps displaying the chance of snow falling on Thursday have it at 95% for some components of Scotland. In Northern Ireland and northern components of England there’s a 70% chance of snow. Wales sits at 55%, with components of central England and the south-west round 20% to 30%.



Probability of snow falling on Thursday
(Image: WX Charts)

The Met Office forecast for March 1 to March 10 warns of heavy rain showers which might be “likely to turn wintry, even at lower levels”. The nationwide climate company expects essentially the most vital snow accumulations to come back over larger floor within the west of the nation. BBC Weather expects wintry showers “in the north and west” on Friday.

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