Arctic blast will carry -7C chills to Britain

Brits are set to expertise a-7C Arctic blast this weekend that can go away some areas lined in snow, as temperatures fell beneath freezing yesterday evening. 

The Met Office has stated that while February has seen among the warmest days on report, the nation will expertise a frosty welcome into March attributable to polar air shifting by way of Iceland and into the UK from the west.

The climate service has issued a yellow climate warning for snow right now for the west of England. 

Parts of Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Hereford or Worcester and its surrounding areas are prone to be affected by the chilly blast. 

South Gloucestershire skilled snowfall by way of the early hours of the morning as residents woke as much as snowfall. 

The Met Office posted on X this morning and warned these in southern and central components of the UK to take care as ‘heavy rain, sleet and snow’ has travelled into that space. 

National Highways South-West additionally reminded individuals to take care when travelling within the area attributable to a  ‘flurry of snow’ throughout the community. 

This morning, residents in Cumbria had been greeted with a blanket of white. Locals had been pictured wading by way of the snow to stroll to the outlets and making an attempt to uncover their autos.

In County Durham, a crashed purple automotive lined in snow was pictured on the aspect of a distant highway. 

The A36 in Wiltshire is closed between the B3414 junction for Heytesbury and the A350 at Warminster after two juggernaut lorries collided.

Highways England stated the vans ‘misplaced traction within the snow’ and smashed into one another. It’s not but identified how many individuals are injured.

‘Police are on scene and restoration has been organized,’ they added.

Other crashes had been reported on Bodmin moor in Cornwall and on the A2 close to Northfleet, Kent.

Meanwhile torrential in a single day rain led to flooding on the M4 at junction 13 close to Newbury, Berkshire, this morning.

The Environment Agency had 35 flood warnings – the very best attainable, with flooding anticipate – and 148 flood alerts, the place it was ‘attainable’.

Buckinghamshire skilled flooding this morning, as autos drove by way of water that had collected on the perimeters of the highway.  

Met Office forecaster Annie Shuttleworth additionally warned Brits to anticipate a freezing begin to Sunday, with lows of -7C ‘throughout inland areas and a few sheltered glens of Scotland.’ 

Up to 10cm of snowfall is feasible in Scotland, Wales, North West England, South West England and Northern Ireland, the forecaster said. 

Ms Shuttleworth stated: ‘It’s going to be staying chilly by way of the weekend throughout the UK however there can be some drier and brighter for Sunday.’ 

‘For many areas it may be a cloudy and chilly evening in any clear skies, significantly for western areas of Scotland, some areas of Wales as effectively, we could possibly be right down to as little as -5C by Saturday morning and lots of areas seeing a danger of some icy stretches on any moist surfaces to start out on Saturday. 

‘The temperatures will decide up fairly shortly on Saturday so any snow will shortly begin to soften and any ice may even begin to soften. But it will nonetheless be a chilly really feel all through the day.’ 

Yesterday morning, components of Derbyshire had been battered by snow that blanketed homes and roads – and continued to fall. 

Umbrellas had been additionally seen out in London as commuters battled heavy rain, whereas drivers needed to splash by way of flooded roads in Maidenhead. 

England and Wales had their warmest Februarys on report, based on to provisional Met Office statistics.

The common temperature in England for February 2024 was 7.5 C, topping the earlier report of seven.0C set in 1990.

Wales noticed a median imply temperature at 6.9C for the month, marginally forward of 1998’s report of 6.8C.