The UK faces a rare “purple” weather shift NEXT WEEK after a bitingly cold January which has seen record-breaking temperature lows. UK weather maps, as shown by WX Charts, have turned purple around January 24 as a huge band of the flurries returns to the country.
A snow bomb – spanning “several hundreds of miles” – is anticipated to strike Britain, and Ireland. The data, projected using figures from the Met Desk, shows parts of Belfast potentially being hit with the arctic blast as the snow moves its way across the UK.
Dublin and Cork could also be battered across January 24. James Madden, from Exacta Weather, has led the predictions for further snow hammering down on the country before the arrival of February, the second month of the year, in a fortnight’s time.
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Mr Madden revealed: “High pressure dominates this week with more dense fog in places and less cold/mild days before the cold and snow start to return once again… As expected, and to match our short-, moderate-, and long-range weather projections, the upcoming week will be less cold and potentially even mild on certain days with largely dry weather for many parts, and the worst of any weather types will come in the form of mist and fog as high pressure dominates for much of the week.
“Additionally, some of those fog patches could be quite dense in places, particularly more so across southern and central regions and parts of Wales and Ireland, and some drizzle or light rain could also start to impact places by next weekend.”
Mr Madden went on, adding: “However, for in and around the start of next week (20th January) and through much of that week, we will start to see the overall theme turning colder and more wintry again, paving the way for some further notable cold and widespread snow once again for the UK and Ireland throughout late January and into early February.”
He said: “It will also turn very cold across some certain parts of southern and central England, where temperatures could also dip as low as between -6 and -8°C in some of the coldest spots overnight, and further widespread ice will make this weekend quite hazardous and prior to those mild changes from the north later.”