Coldest week for 20 yeras on it's way...

COLDEST WEEK FOR 20 YEARS IS ON WAY
Friday December 7,2012
By Nathan Rao

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BRITAIN is braced for its coldest winter in 20 years next week when a "beast from the East" front roars in from Siberia.
Bitter gales will send temperatures plummeting to around -15C (5F), colder than the North Pole. In some remote areas of the North the windchill factor could make it feel like -30C.

With parts of the country already shivering through -13C on Wednesday night, forecasters say even colder air will sweep in from next Monday.

They warn there will be no letup for at least a month and say a white Christmas is "a dead cert".

Cold weather health alerts to protect the elderly and vulnerable are likely next week but least councils believe they have enough salt stockpiled to grit the roads.
One local government chief said they are well prepared to keep the traffic moving during the depths of winter.
There’s a good chance of much of the country seeing lying snow
Forecaster Brian Gaze, of The Weather Outlook

Bookies William Hill have cut odds on the lowest-ever temperature record being broken from 14/1 to 8/1. It stands at -27C and was equalled in recent years on December 30, 1995 in Altnaharra, northern Scotland.

Forecaster Brian Gaze, of The Weather Outlook, warned: "Forecast models show a 'beast from the East' weather system next week, with massive blocking high pressure from Siberia to Scandinavia pushing easterly winds across the UK.

"There's a good chance of much of the country seeing lying snow, with growing signs of the weather turning very cold."

The Met Office last night warned that a very cold spell of weather could bring the lowest temperatures of the year so far.

It said bitter 60mph gales are likely to make it feel even colder.

Helen Chivers said: "It is going to be very cold next week with a chance we could beat the -15.6C recorded in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, in February.

"Later in the week there could be some signifi cant accumulations of snow."

As a result, she predicted, there could be a health alert. Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: "Next week will be the coldest week of the winter so far.

"We are in for a freezing blast of air with snow spreading down the country even as far as London with a white Christmas now looking a dead cert.

"There is a good chance of the record Treacherous for cold being broken and certainly the whole country should prepare for harsh frosts and treacherous driving conditions."

He said daytime temperatures in the North will struggle to get above -6C, while the South will shiver in lows of -3C.

Leon Brown, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said: "Temperatures may hardly rise above zero next week.

"This will persist throughout December across Christmas and New Year so there's a high chance we will have a white Christmas."

Jim Dale, forecaster for British Weather Services, warned: "All the potential is there for a very bad winter ahead, and people should be prepared."

The warnings have sparked fears of a repeat of the big freeze of 2010/11 which crippled the UK and closed airports for days.

But the Local Government Association said councils are prepared for the big freeze with enough salt stock-piled to last for two weeks.

Peter Box, chairman of the Economy and Transport Board, said: "Councils areas well prepared as they've ever been to keep roads safe and traffic moving as winter closes in.

"There's about 1.3 million tons of salt in council depots, they've got new GPS-tracked gritters which use salt more effectively, the latest technology in snow ploughs and special quad-bikes and 4x4s to grit narrow or hilly roads.

"They will be receiving up-to-the minute reports from weather experts and their gritting teams are on standby around-the-clock.

"Highways, street-cleaning and park staff could also be drafted in to help clear snow and ice around places like shops, schools and sheltered accommodation."

Temperatures in Britain have already sunk lower than the North Pole this week with Svalbard, Norway - the world's most northerly settlement - hitting -8.5C, which was considerably warmer than some parts of the UK.

Earlier this week forecasters admitted they had been caught on the hop by the widespread snowfall on Wednesday.

Flights and trains had to be cancelled and the AA rushed to 5,000 breakdowns, with the Home Counties, and particularly Essex, being the worst hit.

That bitter chill claimed the life of pensioner Robert Johnston, 79, who was found dead by his partner as freezing conditions hit Angus, Scotland.

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Well i am going to have to buy my Mrs a bigger and warmer coat so she can put on when i go to work Saves on the heating see

Well i am going to have to buy my Mrs a bigger and warmer coat so she can put on when i go to work Saves on the heating see

My Mrs is posh she has a eiderdown

Just because they say it is going to be really cold, doesn't mean it won't.

Is this just the polar opposite to the barbeque summer these freaks keep telling us, not a clue.

Good job we've got undersoil heating at CCS!

the express says it all really every day they got a weather story there more obsessed than the jacks are with us on our board

have to be a bit colder than that to stop me window cleaning

Well i am going to have to buy my Mrs a bigger and warmer coat so she can put on when i go to work Saves on the heating see

i,v brought mine a burka mate

I have no issues with burka's as long as their blue and worn at least 6000 miles away from the UK.

Well i am going to have to buy my Mrs a bigger and warmer coat so she can put on when i go to work Saves on the heating see

i,v brought mine a burka mate

Funny you should say that i was messing around with face in the hole a form of photo shop. I was messing with her picture and she said to me make me look good !! So i put her in a burka and she wasn't amused. Still have that on my phone

Just because they say it is going to be really cold, doesn't mean it won't.

Is this just the polar opposite to the barbeque summer these freaks keep telling us, not a clue.

Climatologists/meteorologists are always wrong

http://news.sky.com/story/1023229/beast-from-east-uk-spared-siberian-blast

'Beast From East': UK Spared Siberian Blast

Bring it on.... I live in Scotland .. Minus2 in July

It's fizzled out now and staying East of the north Sea. It will be coldest on Wednesday but not as cold as expected as a warm front moving in from the west will bring rain and wind for the end of the week!

Let's hope the red of Cardiff's keeps us feeling warm.....

It's fizzled out now and staying East of the north Sea. It will be coldest on Wednesday but not as cold as expected as a warm front moving in from the west will bring rain and wind for the end of the week!

Let's hope the red of Cardiff's keeps us feeling warm.....

Stirrer!

Merlin f**k the red .
Weather men wrong ? Didn't see that coming

Merlin f**k the red .
Weather men wrong ? Didn't see that coming

Yeah Steve, I know what they're like. They change their mind like the weath..... err often.

Lucy Verasamy - ITV's weather presenter. What a fox. "There will be a moist damp start to the day in the lower regions leading to occasional downpours combined with a very warm front ". Ffnaaarr.......!

Lucy Verasamy - ITV's weather presenter. What a fox. "There will be a moist damp start to the day in the lower regions leading to occasional downpours combined with a very warm front ". Ffnaaarr.......!

Cold, cold try minus 52C that is fecking cold. Used to have a photo of one of techs going out with a mug of boiling water, obviously it wasn't boiling by the time he got outside, thrown in the air and turns to mist before hitting the ground. That was in Siberia but the coldest I've ever felt was on the Brecon Beacons putting up snow fences when it was -18 or something but wet, the wind litterally cut through you or maybe on Epynt erecting security fencing where the anti freeze in the land rover froze! Regularly been in -27 to -30 in Bulgaria over the years but it's a "dry" cold so strangely enough doesn't feel as cold as say -10 in Cardiff.

That's all well and good but do you have any pictures of Lucy Verasamy"s clout? I'll settle for a bit of side-tit but only if you can see the nipple. Tittage only counts if you can actually see the nipple.