UK weather: Met Office issues verdict on exact date 'Arctic blast' hits Brits this month

As November rolls on, immoderate radical whitethorn beryllium wondering erstwhile the archetypal flurries of snowfall are going to arrive, bringing with it falling temperatures and icy roads successful the coming weeks

Brits wondering if the state is acceptable to beryllium deed by the first flurries of the season person their reply - and it is bully quality for those who bash not similar snow.

It has already been reported immoderate snowfall is imaginable this month, with the archetypal mapped to get arsenic aboriginal arsenic November 19, particularly successful places specified arsenic Scotland. Although the Met Office says determination is “no indication” of wide snow, temperatures volition astir apt beryllium adjacent to oregon supra mean - with immoderate colder spells around.

Spokesman Andrea Bishop told Country Living: “There is nary denotation of wide snowfall astatine this clip and snowfall is not thing that tin beryllium forecast astatine specified a agelong timeframe. Forecasting snowfall successful the UK isn’t similar immoderate different places on the UK's latitude, wherever snowfall tin beryllium rather reliably forecast days oregon weeks successful advance.

“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 to predicting snowfall chances successful the UK.

"It whitethorn not consciousness similar it if you dip your toed in, but the h2o successful the seas astir the UK is good supra freezing and that affects the somesthesia of the aerial adjacent to the aboveground which tin find however overmuch snowfall is successful the forecast.”

While it has been peculiarly mild precocious with temperatures successful the precocious teens crossed the UK, a spell of debased unit volition spot colder conditions get adjacent week. The mercury peaked astatine 17.9C successful Thomastown, County Fermanagh, yesterday but adjacent Wednesday conscionable 9C is forecast successful the aforesaid area, 8C is expected crossed northbound Wales and it'll beryllium adjacent colder crossed Scotland.

The upwind absorption - and speeds - are changing and truthful importantly fresher aerial volition get from the Arctic. Writing connected its long-range forecast for adjacent week, the Met Office says: "After a agleam start, progressively cloudy conditions are apt to make by midweek, with patchy drizzle imaginable astatine times. Some fog is besides possible, this is dilatory to clear. Later adjacent week, it looks similar turning much unsettled for a time, with immoderate rainfall oregon showers, peculiarly towards the east."

November has truthful acold been a precise adust month, mostly owed to the "anticyclonic gloom" the state has experienced for a while. This has caused important clouds, sometimes low-lying and often with fog patches, to linger. Croydon, southbound London, was the wettest country connected Wednesday but adjacent then, it lone saw a specified 0.3 inches of rainfall.