Temperatures, which exceeded 20C in west Wales last week, are expected to plunge in the coming days, so much so it will feel as cold as -7C during the Easter weekend
The Met Office has confirmed it forecasts snow during the Easter weekend.
Temperatures are anticipated to tumble in the coming days, to the point where it will feel as bitter as -7C as cold air sweeps in from the west. Forecasters at Metdesk had issued weather maps, showing snow is likely across several regions of the UK.
And now the Met Office, recognised as the country’s national weather and climate service, has said some Brits can expect the white stuff on Good Friday. Alex Burkill, meteorologist at the service, said it will also be particularly windy due to the fierce low band of pressure from the west.
“Looking at Good Friday, as I mentioned, there’s some discrepancies between different models, and so we need to bear in mind that there’s the potential for a relatively small but deepening area of low pressure to track somewhere around northeastern parts of Scotland,” Mr Burkill said in a YouTube video on the Met Office’s channel.
“If this comes off, we could see gusts of 55mph to 65mph, perhaps in excess of 75mph if it’s one of the worst case scenarios in terms of how deep a feature it is and how windy is going to be. Also, the potential for a fair amount of rain, with 10mm to 20mm, perhaps a little bit more in northern and western Scotland. Also, some winteriness, some sleet, some snow following in – we’re talking at about 400mm or so – but nonetheless some snow.”
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Snow will be heaviest across Scotland, particularly across the Scottish Highlands. However, the weather maps suggest it could snow as far south as Staffordshire and some parts of Wales during the Easter weekend.
It will rain elsewhere, heaviest across western parts of the UK, such as Cumbria and parts of south Wales. Mr Burkill added: “We are likely to see some wetter weather and some stronger winds particularly towards the northwest as we go through Good Friday… It could (also) be particularly wet and windy through the middle part of the long weekend.”
Temperatures exceeded 20C in west Wales last week. However, they are now believed to plunge in the coming days and, due to the wind, it will feel as cold as -7C in some places by Sunday morning. It is expected to be windy throughout the weekend, notably on Friday with the westerly gales set to buffet the Yorkshire Dales, the Pennines and parts of mid and north Wales, such as Powys.
But there is an indication temperatures will climb again — and winds will ease — after Monday. The warmest parts at the end of next week are likely to be Greater London, Kent and Essex.
