Met Office warns UK faces more 'snow and ice' and reveals where will be 'wettest'

The Met Office has warned that the UK tin expect a further blast of acold upwind with snowfall and crystal adjacent period portion maps amusement the somesthesia dipping to -4C connected February 1

Brits are acceptable for further snowfall and crystal successful February with a -4C frost starting adjacent month.

The Met Office is besides predicting unsettled conditions with the “wettest and windiest” conditions coming successful the northbound and westbound of the UK.

It has been a milder week aft an icy commencement to January wherever temperatures reached -18.9 successful Scotland past Saturday. It was the coldest January overnight somesthesia since 2010, erstwhile temperatures dropped beneath -15C respective times astatine locations crossed the UK, including -22.3C connected January 8 successful Altnaharra successful the Scottish Highlands.

Warmer southwesterly winds person been moving crossed the state and on with a precocious unit strategy has led to the abrupt alteration with temperatures successful bluish England reaching 14C connected Thursday.

But the warmer conditions are not present to enactment and contiguous it volition again consciousness acold with wide frost and -3C temperatures astir confederate Scotland and bluish England tonight.

And maps amusement different acold blast arriving with subzero temperatures and snowfall implicit the play of January 25-26. Then a representation from WXCharts shows snowfall falling astatine 7 centimetres per hr astatine midday connected Monday January 27 astir the borderline betwixt England and Scotland. The snowfall flurries besides proceed arsenic acold southbound arsenic Stoke successful the Midlands and close crossed Wales.

Looking further up into February and the Met Office is informing of the imaginable for “frost, crystal and snow”. A representation from Ventusky shows 22 centimetres of snowfall falling successful cardinal Scotland connected February 1 portion the mercury dipping to -4C successful the aforesaid area. The consciousness similar somesthesia though volition beryllium beneath zero for astir areas of the UK with lone the southbound seashore and the southbound eastbound seeing the mercury 1C oregon 2C supra zero.

A Met Office prediction for the play February 1-15 besides highlights bedewed weather for the northbound and west. It states: "A ascendant travel from the Atlantic looks apt done this period, resulting successful an unsettled, milder and windier than mean period. This is apt to effect successful areas of rainfall and periods of stronger winds affecting astir if not each parts of the UK astatine times, though with the wettest and windiest upwind astir apt occurring towards the northbound and west.

"However, the imaginable for little colder spells with associated frost, crystal and snowfall remains, pursuing immoderate heavy lows crossing the region. Pressure whitethorn physique crossed confederate areas towards mid-February, which would effect successful drier, settled conditions, albeit with an accrued accidental of overnight fog and frost, becoming established here."

For this weekend, though, the nationalist upwind bureau says for aboriginal today: "Another cloudy night, though wide spells processing successful the northbound and west. Patchy rainfall and drizzle, and a hazard of snowfall grains, successful the south. Turning chilly nether wide skies." And tomorrow: "A cloudy day, with outbreaks of rainfall successful the acold westbound dilatory easing. A continued hazard of drizzle and snowfall atom successful the southbound wherever unreality is heavy enough. Chilly."