Rain, snow, and ‘anticyclonic gloom’ to see out weekend – however temperatures set to rise drastically | EUROtoday

Temperatures are anticipated to ruse to as excessive as 14C subsequent week, after a fortnight of gloomy rain and snow.

Much of the UK has seen “anticyclonic gloom” over the previous week, inflicting uninteresting skies, with some areas not having seen the solar in additional than every week.

Parts of East Anglia have been hit with snow on Saturday, with 2cm in Norfolk and 1cm in Suffolk. According to the Met Office, elements of the UK might proceed to see snowfall all through Sunday night and into Monday.

“Over the weekend so far we’ve seen a couple of centimetres in the east,”Meteorologist Ellie Glaisyer stated.

“Going forward, we could see between 1cm and 3cm in parts of Scotland above 100m and the same in the north of the UK Monday into Tuesday. In the highest areas, above 300m, Scotland could see up to 20cm.”

But temperatures might rise to 13C or 14C by the center of the week, with sunshine in quite a lot of areas on Monday, Ms Glaisyer added.

The predicted temperatures of 14C by the center of the week are properly above February’s common, with 6C the same old month-to-month common in Scotland and 9C in southern England, which will probably be a “noticeable shift” after the final fortnight which was beneath common, Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey beforehand stated.

But it isn’t more likely to be record-breaking, as February’s highest temperature was 21.2C recorded in 2019 in Kew Gardens, he added.

More western areas are more likely to see some rain through the week, whereas jap areas are forecast to remain drier.

Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan stated he doesn’t count on any nationwide data to be damaged, however some areas might go 10 days with none sunshine, which is “near record-breaking”.

Mr Morgan stated: “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 defined the gloom “dominating” the UK over the past two weeks has been attributable to a “large anticyclone”, or high-pressure system, which has been sitting over Scandinavia, bringing chilly 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.”