Snow: Met Office's first mention of 'colder interludes' amid warmest November for years

Snow is people often associated with colder upwind but the Met Office says temperatures person peaked astatine astir 19C this November, signficantly warmer than mean for the clip of year

Colder weather is looming arsenic temperatures are acceptable to plunge by astir 9C successful a substance of days, forecasters say.

The Met Office has alluded to "colder interludes" for the archetypal clip successful its November forecast arsenic Atlantic systems are acceptable to determination eastwards crossed the state aboriginal this period and into December.

While UK temperatures connected Thursday peaked astatine astir 18.9C successful Kinlochewe, Scottish Highlands, conscionable 9C is forecast for the aforesaid clip adjacent week arsenic a bitter Arctic blast looms. It is simply a important alteration to this week's mild air, during which the mercury besides deed a balmy 17.9C successful Thomastown, County Fermanagh and 17.2C successful Bude, Cornwall.

Writing connected its long-range forecast conception of its website, the Met Office says, contempt the colder spells, immoderate places volition proceed to spot mean temperatures for the clip of year. It adds: "Signals alteration successful prevailing upwind patterns done this play but apt much unsettled than during aboriginal November. There is simply a greater accidental of much mobile upwind patterns which would spot Atlantic systems periodically determination crossed the country. These bringing immoderate wetter and windier interludes followed by drier periods. The wettest conditions apt crossed the northwest of the state with drier upwind crossed the southeast. Some colder interludes imaginable but wide temperatures much apt to beryllium astir oregon supra average."

While the "colder interludes" are forecast, the Met Office says it is hard to authorities with assurance if the UK volition spot wide snowfall successful the coming weeks. Spokeswoman for the service, Andrea Bishop, said: “There is nary denotation of wide snowfall astatine this clip and snowfall is not thing that tin beryllium forecast astatine specified a agelong timeframe.

"Because of the UK’s location, wherever the aerial comes from is incredibly important erstwhile it comes to determining if snowfall is possible. Being surrounded by h2o besides adds different origin into predicting snowfall chances successful the UK."

As temperatures autumn adjacent week, upwind speeds are acceptable to increase, particularly on the North Sea coastline. Forecasters astatine Ventusky accidental the gusts volition beryllium strongest adjacent Friday - and could deed speeds of 40mph successful County Durham and Northumberland.