UK weather: Brits to be blasted with 'snow grains' as icy temperatures grip country

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UK weather: Brits to be blasted with 'snow grains' as icy temperatures grip country
Author: mirrornews@mirror.co.uk (Benjamin Lynch)
Published: Jan, 18 2025 21:01

Brits can expect more freezing weather this winter with “snow grains” expected in parts of England tonight. Snow grains are the solid equivalent of drizzle and look like very small white and opaque grains of ice. They are fairly flat or elongated and are usually less than 1mm across and are expected to fall in southern England overnight. The south of the country has been dealing with a blanket of cloud and colder air coming up from the near continent.

Meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said in an online forecast: "It is going to be a cold night underneath this blanket of cloud, temperatures close to freezing, but still mild across Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland. So if you are up early Sunday morning on your stroll across the south, you may see some drizzle, but also some snow grain being brought up from the English Channel.".

Parts of northern Scotland enjoyed Saturday's top temperatures at around 12C or 13C while the figures struggled to around 3C or 5C towards the south and eastern England. Sunday is set to be chilly and there is "a continued risk of drizzle and snow grain in the south where cloud is thick enough", the Met Office said in its five-day forecast.

It will be cloudy and wet in the far west and the grey, drab coldness of winter will continue into the new week. Britons can expect "a cloudy outlook through the start of the new working week, with showery rain spreading erratically eastwards" with temperatures generally around average in the north but chilly further south, it said.

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