UK climate maps flip icy blue as -3C Arctic freeze hits in hours

A widespread polar freeze is on its strategy to hit 17 UK cities in lower than 24 hours.

Cold weather map for 12pm on May 6

A sweeping chilly is coming to freeze massive elements of the UK (Picture: WXCHARTS)

The UK is ready to be hammered by bitterly chilly climate in a matter of hours, with temperatures in some elements of the nation forecast to plunge beneath zero. As many as 17 cities are set to see the mercury plummet to freezing ranges.

Climate maps from WXCharts have turned icy blue, indicating {that a} sweeping chilly snap is on its means. At 6am on Wednesday (Could 5), Scotland is anticipated to take the worst of the bitter situations, with Perth and Kinross forecast to expertise the bottom temperatures within the nation at -3C. Aberdeen will probably be only a diploma hotter and the Scottish Highlands will see the mercury hover between 0C and -2C. Edinburgh and Glasgow will see temperatures plunge to brutally chilly lows -1C, the maps present. England will even see glimpses of the brutally chilly climate, with Carlisle anticipated to drop to -1C.

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UK weather map for 6am on May 6

A widespread polar freeze is forecast to hit in a matter of hours (Picture: WXCHARTS)

Newcastle upon Tyne and Middlesbrough will see temperature lows hover between 0C and 2C.

Additional south in England, temperature lows are forecast to solely be barely hotter, and will wrestle to get above freezing.

The maps counsel the mercury will hover between 1C and 6C, that means hundreds of thousands of Britons might get up to extgremely chilly situations on Wednesday morning.

The Met Workplace’s climate forecast for Wednesday warns of colder situations in comparison with these skilled in latest days.

It states: “Most locations dry with patchy cloud and sunny spells. A number of showers breaking out throughout Northern Eire, Wales and southwest England. Temperatures beneath common for the time of 12 months.”

UK weather map for 6am on May 6