As forecasted back at the beginning of last week, snow has indeed reached Greater London with a large swathe of the UK, especially central and northern areas under snow cover now.
With cloud cover, snow cover isn’t as affective at driving down the temperature by night and without snow on the ground arctic air is wasted. However it looks as though Tue and Wed mornings could provide the right conditions as cold surface high pressure drops back south over Scotland to support clear sky and light wind. The coldest morning may be yet to come, especially given the widespread snow cover.
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It was a cold one throughout Europe yesterday with mainly coastal fringes of UK, Ireland and France holding at 5-10C.
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Much of Scotland remained below freezing yesterday beneath snow laden skies.
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Areas from Glasgow to London are waking up to the first snow cover of winter.
Below is an infrared satellite view showing the snow cover. Unfortunately cloud building into the west is obscuring the full extent of the snow cover.
Via Simon Cardy
There’s more to be added later this evening through the first half of Monday as another front bumps into the cold in place. Under the clear skies of far northern Scotland, the thermometer dipped to -10C Saturday morning and -12C this morning at Kinbrace, Sutherland. Tonight may get close over the far NE snow fields where skies should be clearest for longest but cloud building from the west should hold temps steady tonight through much of tomorrow before clearing later tomorrow evening.
Below is the GFS snow forecast through the next 36 hours. Further significant snow expected over the Alps, Balkans and Black Sea coast where several FEET of additional snow is likely.
Credit: AccuWeather Pro
Additional 1-2″ is possible over Scotland with a good chance at Paris seeing their first significant snow.
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Temps of 0 to 3C will mean a little melting today but there’s enough cloud to keep the snow cover from dwindling too much and through the next 36 hours, we should see a freshening of the snow cover as another 1-2″ could fall even at low levels through Monday.
Projected UK snow cover at 48 hours.
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Note the projected snow cover across northern France.
Low pressure later tomorrow into Tuesday sinks south and as already mentioned, high pressure builds across Scotland.
More tomorrow.
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