Britain is set to be blanketed in snow thanks to a cold winter front, according to new weather forecasts. Maps from WXCharts using MetDesk data show snow - indicated in purple - moving across the UK on New Year's Day , with several centimetres falling per hour over much of northern Scotland, Cumbria, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales. The rest of the country however, will stay mostly dry, other than a few rain showers along the south coast of England. The cold snap around January 1 will