False alarm, guys – T-shirt weather is not, in fact, around the corner. Actually, the UK might have to endure some more snow before we finally get to whip out the shorts and SPF.
A map by WXCharts shows a ‘600-mile snow bomb’ spreading across the Scottish Highlands down as far as Cornwall next week, on Thursday, March 21. It predicts low temperatures, rain and high winds will hit most parts of the UK, with temps down south potentially dropping to between -5C and -10C. Apparently, snowfall will be the heaviest in Perthshire, Scotland.
But before you dust off your sledge, it’s important to note that the Met Office says it can only accurately forecast snow a few days in advance, and it’s made no mention of this ‘ice bomb’ in its most recent long-range predictions. So, we still don’t know for sure.
What we do know, though, is that there will be plenty of rain and grey skies for the time being. In its forecast for March 15 to March 24, the Met Office said: ‘From the end of the week a broadly unsettled pattern continues. Friday likely seeing longer spells of rain clearing northern areas whilst showers, sometimes heavy with thunderstorms developing elsewhere, though some brighter spells at times and clearing skies overnight.
‘Temperatures feeling mild out of the fresh winds. Through the weekend further bands of rain expected to push in from the west and southwest, breaking to showers at times. Into the new week temperatures trend down toward average for the time of year as the broadly unsettled pattern continues with periods of rain, heaviest in western areas push across the country to be followed by occasional showers, with a risk of thunderstorms mainly in the south.’
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