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Britain is likely to witness snowy weather conditions next week amid the heavy flood warnings issued by the Met Office this weekend. Longer range forecasts for next weekend by independent forecasting group WXCharts suggest wintery showers will hit the Scottish Highlands.
They predict a cold blast beginning on the afternoon of Saturday, October 15, and lasting into the early hours of Sunday.
Forecasters told The Sun that temperatures could drop below zero on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, following a weekend of blustery winds and rain in the north.
However for many, there will be more “changeable conditions”, with rain hitting parts of the country as flood alerts are put in place in Cumbria and Derbyshire.
Longer range predictions looking at November and December predict “snow and ice” arriving this winter.
Professor Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office told MailOnline: “November and December look more settled with high pressure likely to dominate our weather.
“Exact weather conditions will be dictated by where the high pressure settles over the Atlantic and the UK, but we are likely to see a higher incidence of northerly airflows, preventing mild, moist air flowing to the UK from the Atlantic Ocean and increasing the potential for cold snaps with some threat of snow and ice, mainly in northern areas.”
At present, there is one flood warning and two flood alerts in place.
The Met Office stated: “Local flooding is possible but not expected from coastal/tidal along the Yorkshire and Humber coastline on Monday. Land, road and some properties may flood and there may be travel disruption.”
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“None of this will be too heavy but still a rather grey, damp picture for western parts in the onshore flow. Further east to the lee of high ground there should be breaks appearing in the cloud and some sunny spells for northeast Britain.”
For the southern half of the UK, the winds will be lighter especially so for the Channel Islands and South West England.
She added: “The onshore flow for western Wales could bring more cloud, even light patchy rain at times on Saturday but overall, it looks like a fair day.
“Most of England will be dry and bright with temperatures around 14 to 18C. Glasgow and Belfast will be 14C. Birmingham and Cardiff up to 16C and London 18C.”
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