Exciting new weather maps show temperatures in the UK should soar well above the average for February next week – it comes after the Met Office said sunshine is set to return
Temperatures in the UK could soon soar to more than double the average for February, according to weather modelling maps.
The average temperature for February tends to sit at around 6C, but now GFS model maps show we could be just days away from basking in 15C. It comes as the Met Office has said more sunshine is right around the corner.
Maps for next Friday show temperatures could reach 15C in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The south-east and the East Midlands could reach as high as 14C. Temperatures of 10C to 13C are possible across the rest of the UK, barring some parts of northern Scotland. The balmy conditions next Friday will represent a stark change from this weekend, with snow falling in some parts of the country on Saturday.
And Met Office Meteorologist Tom Morgan has said the gloomy conditions we’ve experienced for much of this month could be about to end. “This month has been very dull, and we’ve not had very much sunshine,” he told PA.
“There are a few days to go before any records may be broken, but it’s certainly been a very cloudy week. Over the last eight days, we’ve seen five of our weather stations not record any sunshine whatsoever.”
Conditions are expected to improve from the middle of next week. Mr Morgan continued: “We’ve basically got this battleground taking place over this weekend between cold air across Scandinavia and Central Europe, which is affecting eastern parts of the UK, but towards the west is a little bit milder.
“The Atlantic is trying to shift that cold air out of the way, pushing from west to east across the UK, but it’s a very slow process and it will take until the middle of the coming week for conditions to turn much milder nationwide.”
He explained the gloom “dominating” the UK over the last two weeks has been caused by a “large anticyclone”, or high-pressure system, which has been sitting over Scandinavia, bringing cold wind from the east.
“Those cold conditions have picked up a lot of moisture across the Baltic and North seas, and those moist conditions have led to a lot of clouds,” he added. “That’s why we haven’t seen much in the way of sunshine in most of the UK recently.”
