Freezing conditions are set to stay in the West MIdlands across this weekend. It will be nothing new to the people of Birmingham and the Black Country, who have been through a chilly week, but you are going to need your scarves for a while longer.
The Met Office forecast for January 11 and 12 shows temperatures drop below freezing for several hours of both days. However, it will feel colder than that.
Freezing fog patches will linger on Saturday and get generally less cold throughout Sunday. However, those conditions will mean it will stay cold even though the majority will see some crisp winter sunshine.
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This is what the Met Office says about Sunday in the West Midlands: “Cold and in places frosty start with a few fog patches. Often cloudy through the morning with sunny spells developing more widely by the afternoon. Feeling a bit milder. Maximum temperature 6 °.
“[It will be] windier on Monday but dry. Breezy on Tuesday and Wednesday, and widely cloudy with the odd spot of light drizzle possible. Turning much milder.”
Here is what the Met Office says temperatures will feel like in the West Midlands over the weekend:
January 11
- 8am: -4C
- 9am: -4C
- 10am: -4C
- 11am: -3C
- Midday: -2C
- 1pm: -1C
- 2pm: 0C
- 3pm: 0C
- 4pm: 0C
- 5pm: 0C
- 6pm: -1C
- 7pm: -1C
- 8pm: -1C
- 9pm: -1C
- 10pm: -1C
- 11pm: -1C
- Midnight: -1C
Sunday, January 12
- 1am: -1C
- 2am: -1C
- 3am: -1C
- 4am: -1C
- 5am: -1C
- 6am: -1C
- 7am: -1C
- 8am: -1C
- 9am: -1C
- 10am: 1C
- 11am: 2C
- Midday: 2C
- 1pm: 3C
- 2pm: 3C
- 3pm: 2C
- 4pm: 2C
- 5pm: 0C
- 6pm: 1C
- 7pm: 1C
- 8pm: 1C
- 9pm: 0C
- 10pm: 0C
- 11pm: 0C
- Midnight: 0C
Reports this morning show more Arctic weather is heading the way of the UK later in January. Some places further north have seen conditions nearing -18C, which may be set to return.