The UK faces a big Arctic freeze within hours as alarming new weather maps reveal how heavy rain and snow will batter Britain this week. Last week parts of southern Britain felt their first snowflakes of autumn 2025 as flurries also fell heavily in northern England and Scotland , while the mercury plunged to sub-zero.

Now new WXCharts.com maps for Wednesday 26th November reveal nearly all the UK will wake to an icy freeze with temperatures as low as -4C in Scotland and -2C and -3C as far south as Oxfordshire and the home counties. Another map shows how by 9am on Wednesday the Arctic weather front of icy rain has straddled most of the UK from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall , covering all of Wales , also bringing heavy snow dumps north of the border.

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