Met Office and BBC Weather issue forecast amid claims -2C snow storm will hit UK

Weather maps person suggested a -2C Arctic snowfall tempest is acceptable to batter the UK, with forecasters saying the achromatic worldly could autumn successful areas specified arsenic Birmingham, Manchester, and Cardiff connected November 18 and 19

Met Office and BBC Weather person dismissed claims that a -2C Arctic snowfall tempest is acceptable to batter the UK. Weather maps from WX Charts had suggested imaginable snowfall crossed parts of the UK, with Birmingham, Manchester, and Cardiff expected to spot immoderate enactment connected November 18 and 19.

However, Marco Petagna, a elder Met Office meteorologist, told GB News: "There is nary motion of thing wintery astatine each successful the adjacent fewer weeks."

He added that we tin expect things to get milder owed to a "southerly breeze" which mightiness usher successful temperatures successful the mid to precocious teens, reports Birmingham Live.

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The Met Office's forecast from November 10 to November 19 indicates: "A set of rainfall crossed occidental and bluish parts of the UK volition determination steadily southeast during Sunday, the rainfall becoming progressively airy and patchy with time. Next week volition spot a bully woody of dry, settled upwind arsenic precocious unit builds crossed the UK."

They besides foretell that "increasingly cloudy conditions are apt to develop, with patchy drizzle imaginable astatine times and besides immoderate fog patches, these dilatory to clear. After a windy spell crossed north-western parts connected Sunday, winds volition go chiefly light, but breezier astir the periphery of the UK, particularly successful the northbound later."

"Temperatures volition beryllium adjacent oregon a small supra mean overall, though immoderate acold nights are possible. From mid-month, perchance turning a small much unsettled, much peculiarly towards the northwest."

The BBC Weather squad has echoed this forecast.

The Beeb's forecast from November 11 to November 17 suggests Brits are successful for a mixed container of weather. "With a caller precocious unit established implicit parts of the UK, akin conditions volition astir apt linger for a fewer days. However, towards the extremity of this period, oregon adjacent earlier, determination are indications that the precocious unit volition realign itself and determination somewhat further westbound oregon north-west. This could unfastened the doorway much wide to a cooler north-west oregon adjacent northerly travel but, adjacent if that were to happen, determination should not beryllium immoderate notable cold."

They added, "Furthermore, this signifier seems to beryllium alternatively temporary. As a result, much of the UK could go susceptible to periods of showery rainfall and brisk winds, though assurance is alternatively debased successful detail. If precocious unit manages to clasp connected to immoderate extent, past the much confederate and occidental regions could inactive enactment drier and somewhat calmer."

And it's not each doom and gloom arsenic "Temperatures are expected to travel gradually down during adjacent week but volition astir most apt enactment a small supra the seasonal average."