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The UK faces 66 hours of snow NEXT WEEK - with as many as NINE counties in England struck. Maps from WX Charts, which are projected using Met Desk data, show snow will hit some parts of the UK as early as 6am on Friday, March 28.

The snow could stick around until midnight on Sunday March 30, it is warned. Areas at risk in England include Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria, Northumberland, Westmorland, Cumberland and West and North Yorkshire.

As much as 2cm per hour could fall. In Wales, counties at risk include Gwynedd and Powys while north of the border in Scotland, counties set for a dusting include Perth and Kinross, Aberdeenshire, Stirling and Fife.

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Issuing its verdict for next week, the Met Office forecast - which spans March 24 to April - explains: "The final week or so of March to the start of April looks to be characterised by a slowly evolving, generally changeable weather pattern.

"Initially a more widely dry interlude seems likely but with time these drier conditions become more favoured across the south, where overnight fog is also a possibility. Further north and northwest, there is a greater chance of rain or showers at times, these accompanied by windier spells with a chance of gales for parts of the far northwest especially.

There is a small chance that these wetter, windier conditions may become more widespread for a time. Temperatures will probably pan out close to average overall, though chilly nights remain possible where clear skies coincide with light winds."

James Madden from Exacta Weather said this week: "We also can't rule out 20C or temperatures in the LOW 20s in some spots in the best of the sunshine during this period in the afternoons.

"However, these types of high-pressure-influenced weather patterns also offer cool to cold conditions in the evenings and ground frosts are possible in some vast areas and before the strong spring sunshine burns through in the day, and also prior to giving way to more unsettled conditions towards the WEEKEND.

"This period of more settled and sunny weather will then actually pave the way for another cold and wintry episode and further snow prospects for something our forecasts have repeatedly maintained would occur on multiple occasions deep into spring this year, and the NEXT WINTRY EPISODE is set to strike in and around MARCH 25 or possibly a little earlier."