UK weather: Exact date temperatures to plunge below freezing as autumn chill returns

The Met Office long-range forecast says Brits volition apt request to wrapper up aboriginal this period arsenic the unusually warm, humid upwind gives mode to a heavy autumn chill

Weather maps person pinpointed the nonstop day a brisk autumn chill volition instrumentality to the UK, with the balmy vigor of the past week expected to springiness mode to sub-zero lows.

The mercury has unexpectedly surged implicit the past fewer days, with mid-October highs reaching an antithetic 22C, leaving Britons surviving successful the southbound feeling uncomfortably lukewarm for the clip of year. With the added upwind warnings for rainfall from the Met Office, humidity has picked up successful kind, reaching beyond 70 percent.

The outlook volition alteration successful conscionable implicit a week, erstwhile countrywide temperatures volition instrumentality to the mean for the clip of year, astir 6C cooler than today. Some areas volition spot the mercury dip by astir treble that, according to the latest weather maps from WXCharts.

Charts from the service, which uses information from MetDesk, foretell that, by October 26, temperatures volition person dropped by 11C successful Scotland. The maps amusement that this clip adjacent week volition beryllium particularly brisk connected the westbound seashore of the Highlands, wherever the mercury volition instrumentality astatine 0C for astir of the day.

The highest daytime temperatures volition scope conscionable 4C connected the day, and portion they look extreme, the chill is expected to widen passim the country. The mercury volition driblet to the debased azygous figures elsewhere, with highs of 7C connected the time apt to prosecute for the remainder of the period and into November.

The Met Office long-range forecast agrees that colder than accustomed conditions could beryllium connected the horizon, with the "initially supra average" temperatures trending downwards towards the extremity of October. The forecast for October 21 to 30 states: "Through adjacent week, an oscillating signifier betwixt occasional spells of rainfall oregon showers, astir predominant successful the northwest, and longer drier interludes in-between, this astir prevalent successful the southbound and east, is likely."

"It whitethorn beryllium alternatively windy astatine times too, again particularly successful bluish and occidental areas. Towards precocious October determination are signs that, whilst northwestern areas whitethorn proceed to spot immoderate rainfall astatine times, precocious unit whitethorn go progressively influential crossed the UK, perchance bringing much wide settled and drier conditions for longer periods, with an expanding accidental of overnight frost and fog. Temperatures volition initially beryllium supra mean successful galore areas, but perchance trending towards colder than mean aboriginal successful the month."