The UK is set to freeze as a -5C icy blast heads this way with large parts of the country set for snow. New weather maps have revealed that the country is just weeks away from being plummeted into snow globe conditions.

The predictions from WX Charts show that some parts of the country are set for as high as 80 percent chance of seeing the white stuff in Scotland on Monday, November 4, which is just over two weeks away.

In Scotland the areas with the highest chance of snow is the Highlands, the Scottish borders. In England snow is predicted the northern Pennines.

Weather expert Jim Dale, who is senior meteorologist and founder of British Weather Services, also says that snow could be on the cards.

He said: “Colder yes, within a northerly airstream. Any snow at the moment is confined to the Scottish mountains, maybe higher northern Pennines.

“It’s a watching brief, as ever but snow in the south so early in the season is becoming a rare event.”

The Met Office has a longer range forecast which covers the time period from Monday, November 4 until Monday, November 18.

It says: “After a potentially settled start to November, with high pressure often in the vicinity of the UK leading to more widely drier conditions and the chance of frost and fog, perhaps slow to clear in places, it is likely this will be increasingly displaced to allow lower pressure to become more dominant with time.

“As such, there will be an increasing chance of rain or showers becoming more prevalent towards mid-November.

“Temperatures may initially be below average, but will probably recover closer to average with the onset of more unsettled conditions.”

For now, however, the conditions are looking slightly milder. The Met Office’s five day weather forecast explains more.

It says this evening and tonight it will remain “unsettled overnight with frequent showers or longer spells of rain affecting Northern Ireland and Scotland”. However, it also says that “elsewhere mostly dry with clear spells”.

It adds: “Very windy this evening with severe gales in the north, but winds slowly easing towards dawn.”