UK weather: Britain braces for bitter chill today as Met Office warns of ‘SNOW GRAINS’ after -2C plunge

BRITS are acceptable to consciousness a bitter chill successful the aerial contiguous with snowfall grains connected the mode - aft figures plummeted to -2C.

The Met Office has warned of icy temperatures aft the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued 8 cold-health alerts across ample parts of the country.

They screen the North East, North West and East of England, Yorkshire and The Humber, arsenic good arsenic the East and West Midlands.

Those in London and the South East are besides nether informing and acceptable to beryllium affected.

Officials stated areas nether caution tin expect "minor impacts connected wellness and societal attraction services".

These see "increased usage of healthcare services by susceptible people" and "greater hazard to beingness of susceptible people."

The informing is much stark for Yorkshire and The Humber, with the portion being warned of "potential important impacts" crossed wellness and attraction services.

This includes a hazard of a emergence successful deaths, peculiarly among those aged 65 and implicit oregon with wellness conditions, arsenic good arsenic imaginable impacts connected younger property groups.

All warnings came into effect connected January 17 astatine 6pm and volition extremity astatine 9am connected January 21.

The UKHSA has besides warned that determination is apt to beryllium an summation successful request for wellness services and impacts connected the workforce affecting transportation of services successful the bluish area.

It highlighted challenges the temperatures could airs to keeping indoor conditions astatine the recommended 18C, which could truthful summation the hazard for susceptible people.

It comes aft temperatures plummeted to a bone-chilling -2C connected Friday night.

And Brits should beryllium definite to wrapper up lukewarm this Sunday arsenic the mercury volition conflict to ascent higher than 3C successful the southbound and southbound eastbound of England.

Those successful the Midlands and northbound of England are acceptable to consciousness temperatures hover astir 1C oregon 2C for overmuch of the day.

Elsewhere, the southbound westbound of England and Wales could acquisition highs of 6C.

Scotland is besides acceptable to spot somewhat warmer temperatures, with Glasgow and Edinburgh besides reaching 6C.

Meanwhile, further northbound the Scottish Highlands could scope 9C by precocious morning.

Light rainfall is besides expected crossed Britain passim the day.

As temperatures drop, these intermittent showers could go snowfall grains, according the Met Office.

Snow grains are a precise tiny signifier of coagulated precipitation that look similar tiny opaque grans of rice.

Much of Britain volition stay cloudy and motorists person been urged to instrumentality attraction successful misty conditions this morning.

Met Office Meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said: "Through this greeting and into the afternoon, we clasp onto a broad of unreality crossed overmuch of England and Wales.

"Some drizzly outbreaks pushing north, you whitethorn adjacent spot immoderate snowfall grains.

"Most of the sunshine volition beryllium crossed northbound and eastbound Scotland but further retired towards the westbound we bash person a acold beforehand brining successful immoderate rainfall to occidental parts of Northern Ireland.

"Temperatures are struggling with a acold feeling time ahead.

"As we spell done the remainder of Sunday not overmuch changes crossed England and Wales but a set of rainfall volition proceed to determination its mode east.

"In the southbound we could spot a interaction of frost, mist and adjacent freezing fog patches to commencement Monday morning."

Heading into adjacent week figures are expected to plunge erstwhile again, with overmuch of England hovering betwixt 0C and 3C connected Monday morning.

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Elsewhere dense showers are predicted successful the northwest into the afternoon.

But Scotland and Northern Ireland are forecast immoderate sunnier spells passim the day.

Colder temperatures volition persist successful the southbound passim the week, with milder conditions staying successful the north.

The outlook from Tuesday remains mostly cloudy overhead, with patches of rainfall sweeping crossed the UK from the westbound and moving eastwards.