“Half” of England looks set to be battered by incoming snow as flurries materialise across the country in the wake of Christmas. A new blitz of snow storms and blizzards looks set to sweep across the country as the mercury plunges.
The blitz of chilly seasonal conditions will begin to set in around midnight on Friday, January 24. Snow is estimated to fall at a rate of around 3mm to 5mm each hour with the east of England most at-risk from the Arctic band of air.
It comes as Netweather TV, which joins WX Charts and Ventusky in using Met Desk data to project the latest outlook, has had its say over what lies ahead as we move through January and towards the second month of the year in two weeks’ time.
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Its January 20 onward outlook explains: “High pressure will become centred to the east of Britain during this week, resulting in mainly southerly and south-westerly winds. It is expected to be generally mild in western Britain and in Scotland, with rain belts moving in from the west at times but often fizzling as they head eastwards and stall against the high pressure to the east.
“However, in central and eastern and especially south-eastern England, the southerlies will often be pulling in continental air, which will result in some days having near or below-average temperatures especially towards the south-east.
The early part of the week is forecast to be relatively settled with the high pressure to the east being the dominant influence on our weather for most of the time, but later in the week we can expect rain belts to move in from the west more frequently and to sometimes push into eastern Britain.
“Correspondingly, it is expected to generally turn milder as the week progresses, with mainly cold temperatures in eastern England early in the week but a general rise in temperature towards the end of the week. Sunshine amounts will probably be low early in the week, with anticyclonic gloom in the east and frontal rain belts pushing into the west, but they may pick up towards the end of the week when we may see some brighter weather in between the rain belts.”