All the parts of England that'll be spared 10cm snow storm next week

All the parts of England that WON'T see snow next week as a fresh Arctic storm blitz before Christmas have been revealed. Weather maps from WX Charts show a chilly wintry front sweeping the nation on Thursday 12 December.

As much as 10cm of snow could fall in some of the worst-hit areas around the Scottish Borders, while northwest England, coastal areas of Wales and much of Northern Ireland will also be in for significant accumulations of the white stuff.

But places set to ESCAPE the snow include the Midlands, so Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, the Black Country, Northamptonshire, West Midlands, Derbyshire and Herefordshire, as well as Suffolk, Norfolk in East Anglia, Yorkshire, and swathes of the south east, including London.

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Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire look set to escap flurries, while Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire are poised for heavy rainfall instead.

Lincolnshire and Rutland could also be spared - but there's heavy snowfall anticipated in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside and the north east of the country, including Cumbria and Northumberland, could be hammered.

The Pennines could also experience a dusting, too, the maps and charts show. It comes as the BBC Weather team explained what lies in store for the first two weeks of December, saying: "Low pressure systems could move across parts of the UK at the beginning of next week leading to a cooler or colder north-west or even northerly flow behind, although the details are still subject to a greater degree of uncertainty. Drier and calmer conditions are possible soon after, related to transient high-pressure over parts of the UK.

"The high pressure is likely to be rather short-lived due to a fairly active North Atlantic pattern that could continue through the rest of the week. Therefore stronger winds and wet weather are on the table at times. Temperatures may be slightly above average, with brief colder phases or fluctuations."