Snow grains set to fall amid the winter chill

A chilly nighttime could spot snowfall grains autumn successful parts of England.

Snow grains are the coagulated equivalent of drizzle and look similar precise tiny achromatic and opaque grains of ice. They are reasonably level oregon elongated and are usually little than 1mm across.

They look acceptable to deed confederate England overnight which has been dealing with a broad of unreality and colder aerial coming up from the adjacent continent, according to meteorologist Kathryn Chalk.

In an online forecast, she said: “It is going to beryllium a acold nighttime underneath this broad of cloud, temperatures adjacent to freezing, but inactive mild crossed Northern Ireland and occidental parts of Scotland.

“So if you are up aboriginal Sunday greeting connected your stroll crossed the south, you whitethorn spot immoderate drizzle, but besides immoderate snowfall atom being brought up from the English Channel.”

Parts of bluish Scotland enjoyed Saturday’s apical temperatures astatine astir 12C oregon 13C portion the figures struggled to astir 3C oregon 5C towards the southbound and eastbound England.

Sunday is acceptable to beryllium chilly and determination is “a continued hazard of drizzle and snowfall atom successful the southbound wherever unreality is heavy enough”, the Met Office said successful its five-day forecast.

It volition beryllium cloudy and bedewed successful the acold westbound and the grey, drab coldness of wintertime volition proceed into the caller week.

Britons tin expect “a cloudy outlook done the commencement of the caller moving week, with showery rainfall spreading erratically eastwards” with temperatures mostly astir mean successful the northbound but chilly further south, it said.