The next area of snow is now working into the Southeast of England and through today this band will slowly spread north. South-central and western areas look likely to escape much of this snow with snow showers possible but expect little in the way of accumulation.If you live anywhere from Kent up through Greater London, East Anglia, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and across the Midlands, watch for a spell of heavy snow with 2-3 inches expected widely, locally 6 inches over upslope areas. This will cause issues on the roads throughout today across this large swath of England from Kent to the Midlands and up the eastern side of the country.Further north and the northern half of England will see worsening conditions into this evening as this band pushes north. Watch out over the higher ground as winds pick up from the east and as heavy snow pushes in, blizzard conditions is possible across the North York Moors and North Pennines. As much as 6-8 inches are possible in spots with blowing and drifting over Trans-Pennine routes. Some of these roads may become blocked. Please check ahead before venturing tonight.

Into the overnight and early Monday morning the heavy snow works into Scotland, the Borders, Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and Grampian look likely to see 2 inches at low levels, 8-10 inches over the Grampians, locally over a foot as gale-force east winds pile the snow up against east, southeast facing hills. This is great news for skiers but strong winds are likely to tamper activity at the resorts through tomorrow.

Even more central areas of Scotland can expect a sizeable snow event from this. Higher stretches of the M8 is likely to see a few inches and this could cause problems for the Monday morning commute between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

If you live in Glasgow and surrounding areas, I expect a covering with eastern suburbs likely to see the most, perhaps 2 or more inches in places. The city itself could see an inch or so while surrounding hills of Ayrshire to the SW, the Campsies to the N and S. Lanarkshire to the S, may see as much as 2-3, locally 4 inches of snow.

The GFS has a covering to perhaps a couple of inches for southern and eastern parts of Ireland, look out tomorrow if travelling to work around Cork and up to Dublin in the morning.

A lot depends on how far west this band of precipitation gets and also how much moisture remains available. The air is plenty cold so this will certainly fall as snow and not sleet or rain.

Expect more snow showers across many areas on Tuesday too.

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Latest GFS snow projections

Later today.

Note the latest run of the GFS has a slower northward progression of the snow.

By later Monday.

Though the northward progression may be slow through today, the snow will quickly spread north tonight and tomorrow.

Look out southern Ireland, GFS shows a decent snow event for you over the next 36 hours.

By later Tuesday

Note the decent snowfall over eastern Ireland..

Notice in the last chart for later Tuesday the bullseye of greatest snowfall over the Grampians. Orographic influence will allow snow totals over parts of the eastern Grampians to top perhaps as much as 2 feet of snow over the next 48 to 72 hours.

Here’s the latest snow depth chart by Wednesday. Note the majority of mainland Britain is snowcovered! How many believed this could happen again?

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