UK cold weather maps turn icy blue as Britain set for -5C Arctic freeze

UK cold weather maps are suggesting Britain will be hit by freezing temperatures in just a couple of weeks.

WXCharts has predicted that wintery weather will hit the UK in a fortnight, on November 18 and 19, bringing with it freezing temperatures.

The coldest part of the UK will be in the Yorkshire Dales, Nottingham and Derby, where it could drop as low as -5C.

It will also be chilly in southwest Scotland (Glasgow, Dumfries, Galloway) and northwest England (Carlisle, Windermere, Lancaster), where the thermometer could reach -4C.

The rest of the UK will sit between -3C and 0C. The only places reaching above 0C will be parts of East Anglia (Norwich, Ipswich) and along the far east coast of England and Scotland.

The cold snap could bring .

In its long-range forecast, the Met Office said that, by mid-November, the weather conditions could "possibly" turn "a little more unsettled".

In a forecast looking at the period between November 19 and December 3, the UK weather agency said: "Probably an unsettled spell for a time at the start of this period with some wet and maybe windy weather for parts of the UK, more so in central and southern areas."

The organisation added there was "low confidence by late November and early December" over the conditions that will dominate that period.

The agency said: "Temperatures will probably be close to or above average overall, although some colder interludes are possible, especially in the north."

This week, the Met Office believes the weather will be mostly dry, with the outlook for Wednesday to Friday forecasting a "pleasant enough" weather during "short lived brighter spells".