UK weather: ‘Mix of rain, sleet and snow’ forecast by Met Office as ‘cold spells’ to grip country next week | UK News

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Britain is likely to experience “several days of cold, potentially disruptive weather next week”, including possible rain, sleet and snow, the Met Office has said.

Forecasters said it was too early to pinpoint exactly where the wintry weather might hit, with computer models showing a range of different scenarios.

But there is confidence that much of Britain will be cold.

Tom Morgan, a meteorologist at The Met, said: “The really cold air is likely to arrive next week and there will be some snow in parts of the UK.

“There will be a messy mix of rain, sleet and snow.

“And also fairly windy conditions, probably on Monday, in parts of the UK, but all areas will be cold with wintry showers likely by Wednesday.”

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Morgan said it was “pretty unusual” for such wintry conditions to be forecast in the south for the season, and attributed the “cold spell” next week to a change in the location of the jet stream.

“At this time anywhere in the UK has a chance of seeing snow and ice and frost at night, particularly from midweek onwards,” he said.

Meanwhile, meteorologist Alex Deakin said next week that “colder air is spreading across the UK”.

“A weather system is developing just west of the UK, bringing moisture in,” he said, and it’s the way it “interacts with the colder air that gives us the question marks over how much snow we’ll see”.

“Going into next week we are more likely to see these weather systems track into parts of the south (of England) and the colder air spread across the UK.”

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He added that there is some uncertainty about the details, but warned that “precipitation, sleet and some snow on the mountains is possible”.

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In early November, a period of high pressure locked large parts of the country in a cycle of fog, drizzle and low cloud.

A number of weather stations across England and East Wales recorded no sunshine at all in the first eight days of this month.

Gloomy weather brought temperatures above average in many parts, but since then it has gotten cooler.