UK faces 0C snow with three major cities warned 'prepare for flurries'

Three major UK cities have been told to brace for snow amid plunging temperatures and plummeting mercury. Advanced weather modelling maps from WX Charts, using Met Desk data, show Dundee and Aberdeen face snow on November 8.

Inverness could also see a dusting amid a 0C cold snap on November 8, with cities and towns seeing around 1cm and the mountains seeing as much as 5cm of snow on the ground. The modelling has been made ahead of the penultimate month of the year arriving.

The Met Office has issued a medium-term forecast for October 28 onwards, into November. It explains: "Initially breezy with large amounts of cloud and some outbreaks of rain, especially in northern and western areas, with generally drier conditions farther southeast.

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"However, high pressure is likely to build more strongly across the southern half of the UK by midweek, tending to restrict any wet and windy weather to the far northwest. That said, areas of cloud trapped underneath this high pressure may still produce drizzle in places, with also an increased chance of frost and fog."

The forecast went on and added: "Later next week and into the following weekend there may be a tendency for high pressure to retreat, bringing an increased chance of breezier conditions and some rain at times, possibly wintry on northern high ground.

"Temperatures near or above average initially, but possibly turning colder later, especially in the north." The November 6 to November 20 forecast adds: "A change in the broad weather pattern over the UK is expected towards mid-November and beyond, as high pressure initially over the nearby continent tends to become more focussed to the north or northwest of the UK.

"This may allow areas of low pressure, south-shifted from their more typical tracks, to approach southern UK and bring rain or showers at times. As a result, after a relatively dry start to the month in the south and east it is likely to become wetter than average here, while conversely northwestern areas, after a wetter start to the month, will tend to revert to drier than average conditions.

"Temperatures will probably be close to average for much of this period as a whole, although some colder interludes are possible."