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A freezing blast gripping Canada and a warm plume from the Canary Islands will throw Britain back into a 60mph spin cycle.The calm after the Storm-Darragh deluge is about to give way to another burst of wet and windy weather.High pressure, the current driver of grey but settled skies will be shoved into the Atlantic this weekend by low pressure from the west.A kink, or ‘trough’, in this low-pressure system […]

The Met Office is urging Britons to remain patient regarding predictions of a white Christmas this year.The national weather service has revealed it receives enquiries about Christmas snow prospects as early as October.However, meteorologists have emphasised that detailed forecasts for the festive period won't be available until the week before Christmas Day.This cautious approach reflects the complex nature of weather forecasting, with the Met Office preferring to wait until closer […]

A powerful anticyclone is set to bring widespread foggy conditions and gloomy weather across the UK, as forecasters remain uncertain about the prospects of a white Christmas.The weather system is causing "forecasting headaches" according to NetWeather, with particular challenges in predicting where skies will clear and how much a weak front in the North Sea will influence conditions.While Scotland and parts of northern England could see snow on December 25, […]

A Kidderminster resident has been left "absolutely astounded" after his insurance company refused to pay for storm damage because wind speeds were 2mph too slow to qualify as an official storm.Dennis Iliffe was denied a payout by insurance provider Ageas after Storm Darragh damaged his property last week.The company insisted that because wind speeds in Kidderminster reached only 53mph, rather than the required 55mph threshold, the weather event did not […]

A ‘bomb cyclone’ storm riding a 2,000-mile ‘atmospheric river’ threatens millions of Americans with power outages, toppling trees and ‘life-threatening floods’.Torrents of rain will drench swaths of the US as an ‘unusually potent’ weather system smashes in from the Caribbean.The assault will be driven by a rapidly strengthening ‘explosive cyclogenesis’ storm – also called a weather bomb or bomb cyclone – and a stream of moisture from the tropics.So-called atmospheric […]

Britain is bracing for a deep freeze as temperatures plummet below zero, with forecasters predicting snow could blanket parts of the country over the Christmas period.The Met Office's long-range forecast indicates sleet and snow is "likely at times" between Christmas Eve and January 7, particularly on higher ground in the north.Temperatures are set to dramatically drop from December 22, with Stirlingshire potentially facing lows of -6C due to a harsh […]

A turbo-charged jet stream will suck freezing winds from the north into freak southerly heat driving a ‘temperature rollercoaster’.The US is about to become a nation divided with snow and sub-zero gales to blitz upper states while further south gets ready for a blast of warmth.A ‘tug-of-war’ at the collision point will unleash ferocious storms with stormy weather forecast into Christmas.Southern, southwestern and some eastern regions will see thermometers hover […]

Storm-battered Britain faces another eight weeks of wind and rain as the nation is gripped by the ‘cyclonic Atlantic’.As swathes of the country clean up after the 96mph hammering from Storm Darragh, experts are glued to panic stations for the next assault.Long-range forecasting models reveal a relentless pattern of wind and rain into February 2025.Stormy conditions and ‘impacts from high winds’ are ‘more likely than normal’, according to Government forecasters.Britons […]

The Met Office has given its first verdict on whether Britons could be in for a white Christmas in its latest long-range forecast.Forecasters suggests the UK is set for an unsettled period leading up to and beyond Christmas - but has already signalled that "sleet and snow" could be heading for Britain's shores as the festive season gets underway.The Met Office's December 13-22 long-range forecast says that a period of […]