yellow rain and fog warnings<\/a> across parts of England and Wales. But is it possible we\u2019ll see more snow this weekend?<\/p>\nSnow looks unlikely across the UK, with temperatures remaining near average for this time of the year and lows of 4C this weekend in the north of England and Scotland, while London and the South East will see highs of 9C. The weather is set to remain showery, with a mix of fog patches and some frost in the North.<\/p>\n
Liam Eslick, the Met Office\u2019s senior operational meteorologist, told The Independent: \u201cIn the immediate future colder weather isn\u2019t expected to return for the UK. Temperatures for most of next week should remain near average.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there\u2019s still a slight possibility that winds from the East could bring a chill during the final week of January, that is still a long time away, giving time for the forecast to change. For now, it\u2019s just as probable that milder southern air will persist, keeping the cold at bay. <\/p>\n
\u201cAny snow this weekend will be confined to the higher hills of Scotland, which isn\u2019t unusual for mid-winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Temperatures are set to remain around average for this time of year, even through the nights over the weekend (Met Office)<\/p>\n
Meteorologist Alex Deakin added that in the short term, the cold weather would not return, although temperatures next week could be a \u201ctouch below average\u201d.<\/p>\n
While the jet stream in the Atlantic appears active, it is weakening as it reaches the UK, which means weather patterns are slow-moving.<\/p>\n
While low pressure is coming in from the Atlantic, northern Europe is experiencing a block of high pressure. This means less cold air or wind is coming towards the UK.<\/p>\n
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Weather appears showery over the weekend with showery spells on Sunday (Met Office)<\/p>\n
Met Office five-day weather forecast<\/p>\n
Friday evening and overnight<\/p>\n
Often cloudy, with some showers, these are most frequent in the West. Mixture of low cloud and fog patches across central and eastern areas, perhaps becoming quite extensive across eastern England. Risk of a frost in the North.<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Early fog patches slowly lifting, otherwise a day of sunny spells and showers, these heaviest and most frequent in the West but fading during the afternoon. Near normal temperatures.<\/p>\n
Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday<\/p>\n
A changeable few days. Often cloudy with some brighter spells and showery outbreaks of rain. Some overnight frost and fog patches, the fog locally freezing and slow to clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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