A huge barrage of snow will sweep across the Atlantic and hit 13 cities across England in March, according to weather forecasts.
The west of England will bear the brunt of the storm, with snow stretching from the Lake District down to Birmingham on March 3 at 6am, according to maps by WXCharts.
Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham will be in the thick of it, with maps suggesting anywhere from 3cm to 10cm of snow could fall per hour.
The barrage will also engulf Blackpool, Preston, Bolton, Derby, Stoke on Trent, Dudley, Coventry, potentially even moving further east to reach parts of Northampton and Leicester.
The northeast of England will get off with a slightly lighter dusting, with around 1cm per hour predicted to fall over Newcastle, as the storm is set to sweep in from the east across the Atlantic ocean and over Ireland.
Just outside the eye of the storm, Gloucester and Cheltenham will be drenched in rain with up to 3mm predicted per hour, while the the South of England will also be heavily impacted in Cornwall, Somerset and Avon.
Rain could potentially creep over to London, however the capital looks to escape the worst of it, and the east coast will remain largely dry, as the weatherfront surges in from the west.
It’s a similar story for the rest of the UK and Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland, where around 1cm could fall per hour over Belfast, and up to 1cm could cover Dublin in Ireland.
According to the Met Office long range forecast from February 24 until March 5, the beginning of March is uncertain, but it could bring cold and showery conditions, with a risk of some snow in the north and overnight frost during drier spells.
It said: “It is possible that further spells of mild, wet and windy weather affect the UK, interspersed with colder, showery conditions with a risk of some snow in the north, but there is also a chance that drier, more settled conditions develop at times, especially towards the south or southeast of the UK.”