>Folks, you had been warned! This may be one of, if not the ONLY blog in Britain that issued a forecast back in October of a “Mid-December snow and cold event” following a warm/mild stormy November for Great Britain and yes it’s bang on target friends…

As forecast the “Core of cold” over the continents, cenetered around Edmonton, Canada and Moscow, Russia are and have experienced record breaking cold as they are charged and, the flood gates are now opening thanks to a negative NAO and westward pull of the trough as ridging backs towards Greenland. A milder time is ahead for those fighting bitter cold since the middle of November and the stage is set for a terrific display of winter now into the New Year and beyond..

The UK is now, experiencing the first hints of continental air and not your typical Atlantic high which does bring cold night and day but it’s only thanks to light wind, clear sky, low angled sunshine and long, dark nights that allows the heat to radiate back to space. The type of air now blowing across the North Sea and is whitening the East Coast counties of England right now and may lay down a blanket of between 1-2 inches with locally 4-6 inches from North Yorkshire to Kent tonight is a front runner to cold, Russian air that is invading the country. Biting east, northeast winds that blow snow showers along with it’s below below freezing wind chills is a different air mass and is not like Atlantic air which after cold mornings, brings cloud and almost always instant warming and rain..

Kent could pick up a half foot of snow, London 1-2 inches?

The snow will progress throughout the next 4-5 days and eventually may whiten much of the country by Sun-Mon, IF we manage to get that widespread covering and some clear nights under a more continent high, then we may experience days holding no higher than the upper 20s and nights into the teens across a widespread portion of the UK.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark