The UK faces a new -10C snow bomb within days as the country continues to shiver in post Christmas conditions. Temperatures in parts of the UK are set to plummet again later in the week, the Met Office has warned, as it issues fresh yellow alerts.
WXCharts, which uses Met Desk data, projects temperatures to fall as low as -10.3C early on Thursday morning in parts of the Pennines (Northumberland, Cumbria, County Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire) and North West. A band of dark blue signifying temperatures of -10C or below covers parts of Lancashire all the way up to east Cumbria for 6am on Thursday.
James Madden, from Exacta Weather, said: “However, frequent snow showers will still continue to develop across parts away from the south of the UK and Ireland during this working week, and although anywhere could see a passing one, they will be more likely in coastal areas and parts of Wales in addition to some further heavier snow showers across Scotland and Northern Ireland/Ireland.
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“Additionally, our last several website updates and dated postings on here stated that these conditions would start to head back to normal by the end of this upcoming week, but only after another low-pressure and stormy area brings the risk of further at least transient snow for in and around next weekend and prior to this event starting to turn things much milder.
“At present the other main third-party computer models are not fully buying a stormy or at least transient snowy period as this low-pressure feature passes through around next weekend, but we could see details of this changing as the week progresses, and it is definitely a work in process for the finer details and its overall snow prospects as of yet, but a respite in the colder weather and snow potential will reduce for several days significantly following on from this milder and windy weather and rain transition afterwards.
“Unfortunately, with the thaw will come ample flood warnings once again…”