The arrival of Storm Claudia last weekend saw much of the UK battered by heavy rain and strong winds. Now that the storm has blown through, however, there are rumours of more transport-impacting weather in Britain. That’s right, the UK could be getting snow this week.
Before you get your hopes too high though, different forecasters are predicting slightly different things, and it doesn’t look like there’ll be a huge blanket of the stuff. That said, on Tuesday (November 18), there is a yellow weather warning in place by the Met Office for snowfall in some areas.
So, will there be snowfall in the UK next week? Here’s what weather forecasters have to say.
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UK snow forecast November 17-21 2025
Met Office
In its outlook for Sunday November 16 to Tuesday November 18, the Met Office said ‘sleet and snow showers possible, mainly focused towards north facing coasts and hills’.
A yellow weather warning is in place for snowfall ‘across higher parts of Scotland’, lasting from 3am to 6pm on Tuesday November 18.
Looking at Wednesday through to Friday, it predicts that the snow will clear by Weds ‘leaving very cold northerly winds with sunshine and wintry showers’. But that isn’t the end of the snow predictions: the Met Office says that hill snow could arrive in the west of the UK on Friday (November 21)
BBC Weather
The BBC has said that the yellow weather warning for snow will apply to the following areas: Central, Tayside & Fife, Grampian, Highlands & Eilean Siar and Strathclyde.
The Beeb says that snow will fall on the Highlands tonight (November 17), and that North Scotland will get the white stuff later on in the day of November 18. The forecaster doesn’t mention any more snow for the rest of the week.
WXCharts
If we go by the forecast from WXCharts, we could expect snow hitting Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and many parts of Scotland between Tuesday and Thursday next week. However, there are disputes over how reliable its predictions are.
WXCharts says snow will start in Scotland at around 3am on Tuesday November 18, spreading down to northern England by 9am (but then turning into rain). On Thursday (November 20), the charts show rain on the western tinges of Wales and Cornwall, and eastern edge of northeast England.
Then WXCharts shows even more snow on Saturday (November 22), covering Leeds, Newcastle and central northern England and Scotland.
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