{"id":726093,"date":"2026-01-28T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:57:14","slug":"parts-of-britain-brace-for-heavy-snow-as-temperatures-set-to-plummet-to-below-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726093\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of Britain brace for heavy snow as temperatures set to plummet to below freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fresh Arctic-Atlantic clash will plummet temperatures into minus figures as parts of Britain brace for heavy snow.<\/p>\n

Scotland and the north are on alert for a weekend winter blast while the south battles wind and rain from the west.<\/p>\n

Stormy weather will continue to plough in from the Atlantic in the wake of Storm Chandra, bringing strong winds and rain turning to snow.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, northerly winds will hit the north triggering heavy wintry showers and the risk of settling snow.<\/p>\n

Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: \u201cThere is more unsettled weather to come as we go through the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Friday, there is more unsettled weather coming, we have low pressure to the southwest of the UK, so some strong gusty winds and more wet weather to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will push across more central areas and with colder air across northern parts, we could see sleet and snow across higher ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Storm Chandra will hover to the west of Britain through the next 24 hours, paving path for further low-pressure storm systems.<\/p>\n

\"Weather<\/p>\n

Scotland and the north of England will suffer the worst of the cold<\/p>\n

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NETWEATHER<\/p>\n

Today is expected to bring a 24-hour gap of calm respite before the spin cycle resumes.<\/p>\n

Temperatures across southern regions will nudge double figures, although Arctic winds further north will keep winter locked in.<\/p>\n

Burkill said: \u201cThrough into Thursday, Chandra is still there to the west of us, and there is a front coming in and some slightly colder air coming in across northern parts on Thursday, so the chance of seeing some wintriness with some sleet or snow increases.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though temperatures for some towards the southwest getting into double figures, where we have strong gusty winds, it is going to feel pretty cold indeed.<\/p>\n

\"Weather<\/p>\n

Northerly winds will hit the north triggering heavy wintry showers and the risk of settling snow<\/p>\n

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NETWEATHER<\/p>\n

\u201cTemperatures are near normal to the south and the winds lighter, but across northern parts the colder air is digging in a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The snow risk will mount over higher ground of the north, although showers may settle to lower levels.<\/p>\n

A UK Health Security Cold Weather Alert is in force across northeastern counties until the end of the week.<\/p>\n

While the overall theme for the rest of the month is wet and windy with average temperatures, the cold could be about to return.<\/p>\n

Jim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services and co-author of \u2018Surviving Extreme Weather\u2019, said: \u201cFor the next week, we are looking at the same pattern of unsettled weather with a more Atlantic regime bringing low pressure in from the west.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no major cold snap coming in the immediate future, but that could change as we go through next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, the greatest risk is going to be from the continuing rainfall across regions that are already at tipping point.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Met Office spokesperson added: \u201cLooking beyond midweek, conditions will remain unsettled. <\/p>\n

“Weather systems will continue to move in from the Atlantic bringing further spells of rain, especially across southern and western areas, continuing to bring the risk of some localised flooding.<\/p>\n

\u201cHill snow will remain a possibility across northern upland areas whenever precipitation interacts with colder air.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fresh Arctic-Atlantic clash will plummet temperatures into minus figures as parts of Britain brace for heavy snow.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,2462,16,15,1764,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-726093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-snow","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales","19":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115972135035674994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}