Live in the UK or Ireland and wondering where winter is, well there’s plenty of it over the continent.

We’ve a big high dominating with Siberian air trapped beneath.

With HP to the east and LP to the west, the UK finds itself trapped under a mild, moist southerly flow with little eastward progression in this dreary weather due to the block to the east.

Yesterday morning lows

Low of -31.5C in central Sweden.

Current and keep in mind that these -5s, -10s (C) are midday readings over eastern Europe.

Marine Eye in the mountains of southern Poland, hit -18.8C this morning.

GFS 2m temp anomaly today.

While the UK shall remain locked in an Atlantic flow pattern with spells of rain and wind over the next day or so, Turkey is about to get hammered by heavy snow and strong bitter NNE wind. A 1030 high is expected to replace the low over Turkey and send temperatures into the -20s over central and eastern areas Wednesday night into Thursday.

Over 40 inches of snow expected in the mountains of eastern Turkey through the next 96 hours.

Bitter cold follows.

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