UK snow forecast: Met Office warns Britain faces MORE SNOW – these areas will be HIT

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The UK is set to be hit by more snow as a new low-pressure weather front from the Atlantic sweeps across the country before drifting off into the North Sea.

Met Office weather forecaster Aidan McGivern warned parts of Britain will also be hit by slippery frost despite temperatures slightly going up.

McGivern said: “The rain will be really confined to the northern isles on Wednesday morning with a fairly keen easterly wind here and that is bringing cold air.

“Showers elsewhere across much of western and southern Scotland as well as Northern Ireland, parts of western England and Wales.

“Again, there will be some snow up the hills and at lower levels, where we had clear skies overnight, a touch of frost.

“A brightening picture for many places, really it’s just Shetland that holds on to the grey skies, the rain and outbreaks of snow.”

A deep low-pressure system could hit the UK over the weekend to bring further snow, torrential downpours and incredibly powerful gales.

Meteorologist Martin Bowles declared: “We think there is going to be a low-pressure system coming in from the south west from Friday to Saturday.

Shetland holds on to the grey skies, the rain and outbreaks of snow

“This will cause some wet and windy weather and we are looking at gales and a lot of rain in parts of the country.

“It will bring some cold air back into Scotland, and this is where some talk of the cold returning could be coming from, and there is quite likely to be further amounts of snow.

“Ahead of the weekend there could be some further problems with snow in Scotland, elsewhere it will be milder and slightly unsettled.”

Heavy rain will put swathes of the country on flood alert as melting snow and torrential downpours cause river levels to rise.

The Environment Agency currently has 15 flood alerts in place across the southwest, East Anglia, central Britain and the northwest.

A spokesman said: “[Flooding] is due to a combination of rainfall and snowmelt.

“Some land, roads and isolated properties could flood and there may be local travel disruption.”

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