Five-day snowstorm will batter UK from in the present day as Met Office warns of 20cm

Brits are bracing themselves for a blizzard later in the present day after the Met Office issued a sequence of freezing climate warnings for the week to come back.

Parts of the UK will possible undergo blizzard circumstances later in the present day as a result of a mix of heavy snow and gale pressure winds. With yellow climate warnings issued on the Met Office web site from in the present day to Thursday, areas of northern Scotland are set to see 10cm of snow.

This chilly situation is courtesy of a bloc of freezing air sweeping in from the polar areas and into Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.

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Speaking to the Mirror, Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna mentioned: “A blizzard is a combination of storm, winds and heavy snow, giving reduced visibility.

“So it’s a combination of various factors. Certainly up towards the north east of Scotland, given the fact we’ve got gale force winds through the afternoon and into the evening, so certainly there blizzard conditions are likely with snow showers feeding through.”

Heading into Monday, there’s the possibility as much as 10cm of snow might fall in locations in Scotland, however by Tuesday, components of Scotland, northern England and Wales might see domestically as much as 20cm of snow. This could also be repeated within the north and west of the UK on Wednesday and Thursday.

There is a little bit of uncertainty as to simply how a lot snow southern areas might see, with one other climate system passing to the south of the nation. Mr Petagna mentioned: “The largest uncertainty is regarding a system that’s travelling at present, it’s trying prefer it’ll cross simply to the south of us, shifting throughout northern France presumably into the English channel.

“There’s only a small probability it might prolong a bit additional north and provides some southern components of the UK an additional threat of a little bit of snow on Tuesday evening, Wednesday. It’s fairly a low threat, we expect that system to steer clear to the south of us however that’s the most important uncertainty within the forecast.

“For most of the week, we’re fairly confident that the north and parts of the west of the UK will see snow, it’s just whether the far south catches some of that in the middle part of the week.”

Explaining how this week’s weather came about, he added: “For much of the winter so far, we’ve seen wind coming off the Atlantic, the Jet Stream pushing weather systems in from the west. It’s a fairly blocked, slow moving pattern, so a sustained spell of northerly winds pushing down across the UK.”

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