WEATHER OUTLOOK

Winter Heads West

We’ve been saying for the last week or so that it looks like cold weather would return and here it comes – As we move through the later part of the weekend colder air will push Westwards from the near continent as high pressure develops to the North of the UK. It does however look like any risk of snow will be limited to Eastern and South-Eastern areas, and any snow that does fall will be showery and light in nature so significant snowfalls are not expected however as we head through the week the risk of snow will slowly begin to increase.

The good news is  that there will be a lot of dry and sunny weather around for much of the United Kingdom this week. The bad news being is that night time temperatures will drop widely below freezing bringing back the widespread frosts. Day time temperatures will struggle to get above freezing, especially across Northern areas.

The map to the right shows the areas that will be at the highest risk from those snow flurries on Monday through until Wednesday. Early indications do suggest that we “may” see some slightly more organised snowfall across East Anglia and the South-East on Thursday. However at this very early stage this could easily change.

Preliminary weather watches may be issued closer to the time if necessary.

Posted: February 6th, 2010 under Weather Outlook - No Comments.