New weather maps show when Britain will see the first showers of 2024 with the country set to be hit by a giant 800-mile wall of rain.

A WXCharts map shows an 800-mile wall of rain sweeping across the UK from west to east on January 2.

There will be heavier spots, getting up to 4mm of rain per hour, across central and south Scotland, and the south of England. There is also the chance of snow in central Scotland.

For the same day, temperatures will be between -1C and 0C in northern Scotland, 0C and 3C in southern Scotland, 0C and 3C in the north of England and Northern Ireland, 1C and 3C in the midlands and Wales and 2C and 5C in the south of England.

And according to Netweather, the jet stream will reach 70mph in the south, 90mph in the middle of the UK and 110mph in the north.

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The Met Office Five-Day Forecast

Tomorrow it will be increasingly cloudy and blustery, with rain at times. There will be some sunny spells in the south and east but it will be generally mild, tempered by strong winds.

It will be unsettled and very windy on Thursday and will remain so in the run-up to Christmas with further spells of rain. It will be generally mild, but turning colder in the north with snow possible.

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This weekend, a band of rain will sink south, being perhaps wintry over hills. To the north, there will be colder showers, wintry over high ground with milder conditions further south.

The Christmas period is most likely to start with a colder airflow across the country, with the exception of the south, bringing some snowfall, mainly across hills in the north.

This interlude is likely to be short-lived, before a milder, westerly flow returns, which may lead to a risk of some transient snow to lower levels for a time.

A continuation of this is most probable towards New Year’s Eve, with cloud and rain across the west, and drier, brighter conditions probable in the east.

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