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A weather warning for snow has been issued for London as the UK is set to see temperatures plunge to as low as -20C this week.. The Met Office has said up to two inches of snow could fall in the ...
A number of weather warnings are in place for parts of the UK on Wednesday, as more snow is forecast to fall across the country and flooding is expected.. The Met Office has issued three yellow ...
National Highways, the government company that operates major roads in England, put out a countrywide severe weather alert for snow across England on Saturday and Sunday.
A maximum snow depth of 76 cm (30 in) was recorded on 1 December in the Peak District, Sheffield, Doncaster, the Cotswold Hills and the Forest of Dean. [citation needed] In this event Scotland, Yorkshire and Northern England at large were most severely affected. On 9 December temperatures recovered across much of the UK, causing a partial thaw.
January 2010 was provisionally the coldest January since 1987 in the UK. [1] A persistent pattern of cold northerly and easterly winds brought cold, moist air to the United Kingdom with many snow showers, fronts and polar lows bringing snowy weather with it. The first snow fell on 17 December 2009, before a respite over the Christmas period. [2]
Up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of snow was reported to have fallen with up to 10 feet (3.0 m) snow drifts. There was a continuous covering of snow throughout the country from 11 March to 1 April. Moreover, from the 22 of March the Isle of Man recorded its heaviest snowfall since 1963. Strong winds and very heavy snowfall resulted in horrendous conditions ...
At least five deaths have been reported in England and Wales since Storm Bert hit as the heavy rainfall and thawed snow put more than 400 areas in the UK at risk of flooding. ... the Government ...
A cold arctic blast has swept into the UK, bringing widespread frost and more snow to parts of Scotland. Temperatures dropped overnight ahead of a bitterly cold weekend that could see "significant ...