Met Office predicts more 'potentially disruptive' snow to hit London this week

More 'disruptive' snow could hit the capital next week after this Monday's surprise flurry, the Met Office said. The meteorologists have provided a long-range weather forecast that details the possibility of snow between Monday 15 January and Wednesday 24 January.

Chilly northerly winds blowing south from colder northern areas are likely to develop widely across the UK, the prediction reads. It said the cooler weather starting in the north can mix with unsettled southern gusts causing snow.

The Met Office said there is "a risk of snow showers, most frequent across the north. Temperatures remaining cold, and a marked wind chill especially in the north. There is risk of unsettled weather pushing in from the south through this period, which could lead to a band of snow and sleet where it meets the colder air across the country."

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Light snow could fall on London again within the week (Image: Tai Kolade/MyLondon)

Despite the worrying prediction, the Met Office admits there is low confidence when we can actually expect to see any snow. However, it said: "There is an increasing risk of something potentially disruptive at some point in this period."

The weather service also laid out some warnings about the upcoming cold weather. It said: "Widespread frosts continue to be a feature by night, with a risk of ice in places."

Looking at their daily weather predictions snow is expected to fall on Wednesday 17 January. The showers are due to start as sleet with snow and rain showers mixing at 3pm on Wednesday next week. This will continue until 6pm too. At 9pm, however, there is due to be pure snowfall. During these snow showers, which have a 60 per cent chance of happening, the temperature will be 4°C at 3pm then fall to 3°C at 6pm until 9pm, though it will feel 3 degrees colder the weather service says.

What do other weather services say?

WXCharts also thinks it will snow but a day later than the Met Office has said, agreeing with BBC Weather that the next snow day will be 18 January. The purple bit shows the level of snowfall (Image: WXCharts)

Other weather services have also weighed in on the possibility of snowfall. BBC Weather also thinks it could snow, but put the shower just a day later. On Thursday 18 January BBC Weather say it will snow briefly at 4am and it may appear as sleet with rainy showers mixing with snow in a chilly 2°C.

BBC Weather's prediction goes further to say that there will be a four-hour snowy sleety shower on Saturday 20 January too, though in the early hours between 2am and 5am. They predict about a 50 per cent chance of this happening with slightly warmer temperatures of 4°C gracing the capital.

WXCharts say that the snow will stay till about 12pm on 18 January and then dissipate more to the east (Image: WXCharts)

WXCharts also thinks that London will be hit by a period of snowy showers, and they too believe it will hit on Thursday 18 January, like the BBC - slightly later than the Met Office. Judging by their map, it seems as though the unsettled weather the met Office mentioned in their long-range prediction from the south comes from France on 18 January meaning quite heavy snow for the South East of England. The snowy flurries are due to start at about 6am, according to WXCharts, and London is just about split in half with the northern part getting more rain and the southern part more snow - up to 0.6cm an hour of it in places.

By 12pm the showers seem to dissipate a bit above the city and more rain moves in as the unsettled weather moves off to the east. The whole day is due to be between 2°C and 3°C as well so wrap up warm.

Another weather prediction service, AccuWeather, has said they do not believe there will be any snow in the period laid out by the Met Office, instead saying there will be rainy showers on 17 January, sun with cloud on 18 January and more rain on 20 January, previously picked by the BBC as a snow day. The temperatures are much more mild on AccuWeather, never reaching below 2°C on any of the possible snow days and reaching as high as 8°C on 17 January.

So there is much debate about when exactly snow could hit the capital but more predictions services say there will be some snow than there won't be any. It is likely wise to heed the Met Office's warnings of disruption and risk of ice.

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