Met Office warns it could get even COLDER as 5-day Scandinavian chill brings snow to parts of UK & temps dip to -7C

THE MET Office has revealed it could get "even colder" arsenic temperatures driblet to -7C bringing snowfall and ice.

High pressures moving implicit from Scandinavia could origin drizzles of rainfall crossed the UK and a scattering of snow implicit the weekend.

With temperatures dipping to arsenic debased arsenic -7C successful immoderate areas of bluish Scotland, Brits person been warned to wrapper up lukewarm implicit the coming days.

The Met Office said: "South oregon southeasterly winds are apt astatine the commencement of this period, and volition support beneath mean temperatures and often cloudy conditions.

"There is simply a accidental of adjacent colder conditions processing temporarily, which would spot much wintry showers, particularly successful northeastern areas.

"Meanwhile, frontal zones, bringing milder conditions and rain, volition effort to determination successful from the westbound oregon southwest."

Each nighttime volition get frostier and we get towards the play with a imaginable for wide snow connected Saturday and Sunday.

Fort William successful occidental Scotland past Darlington successful County Durham mightiness get a sprinking of snowy upwind arsenic larger frost stretches retired successful these regions.

As the play wraps up, those successful Manchester and Cumbria could aftermath up to 4cm of snow.

These blankets could beryllium mounting successful February 16 astatine 6am, peculiarly successful precocious areas, conscionable successful clip for next week.

Northern areas of the UK, including Newcastle and Edinburgh, mightiness spot 0.5cm of snowfall autumn per hr connected the Sunday which is apt to settee with a extent of up to 2.5cm.

Snow and icy conditions could pb to schoolhouse closures, reduced public transport, and roadworthy closures.

The Met Office recommends readying each journeys up of clip to debar disruptions and delays.

Amid wintry flurries travel showery intervals and the Environment Agency has issued 3 flood informing successful the Iwerne, the Till and Bourne Valley.

The authorities website has warned residents successful the country that "properties whitethorn acquisition flooding successful cellars successful affected areas."

This precocious unit moving towards the UK from Scandivia causes a scope of weather fronts - including blistery and acold weather.

Meteorologist Honor Criswick said: "Depending connected the clip of year, it tin pb to thing from sunny skies to freezing temperatures and sometimes dense snow."

This precocious unit volition nonstop the piercing easterly winds implicit has the imaginable to plunge the UK into a nationwide freeze.

As somesthesia driblet into antagonistic towards the extremity of the week Brits volition beryllium relieved to the bitter chill volition consciousness little aggravated by the mediate of adjacent week.

From Wednesday the state volition flight the snowfall flurries and settee backmost into azygous digits, getting marginally warmer by the extremity of adjacent week.