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The counties set to be hit by UK snow before the end of October has been upgraded to nine. The maps and charts, from WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data, shows a downturn in conditions before the end of the tenth month of the year.

Maps show blotches of white and grey spreading across swathes of Scotland. And it is feared the mercury could drop to as low as -8C at times in rural Scotland, with the Highlands and central areas worst-hit.

Counties at risk of snowfall north of the border are Ross and Cromarty, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Highland, Moray, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, Argyll and Bute, and West Dunbartonshire.

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The coldest counties are forecasat to be Northumberland and Durham as well as North

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