Weather map reveals date the Arctic blast will hit the UK following mini heatwave
Snow is expected to arrive in some areas of the UK soon, but before that temperatures are predicted to rise significantly for this time of year.
New maps from WXCharts show temperatures entering the high teens before Halloween, due to a 600-mile-wide high-pressure front moving in from the Mediterranean.
This warm spell is expected to last until Thursday, after which the weather will take a chilly turn, creating a chance of widespread snow showers which will reach the Highlands, reports the Mirror.
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One map from WXCharts shows the likelihood of snow falling over the UK on Monday, November 11.
Although snow has already fallen lightly over the Highlands this autumn, this would be the first time snow has been seen in areas further south.
This mix match of weather has been explained by weather forecaster James Madden from Exacta Weather, who explained that a high-pressure front has kept temperatures unusually warm at this time of year.
He predicts a pool of cooler air will begin to influence the weather conditions throughout the week, as he wrote: "The high pressure rises that have brought the mild and warmer than average temperatures during this week have actually worked against us, with that expected pool of colder air now being further away from us and our forecast expectations for the period of later this weekend and early next week.
"However, the expected low-pressure system will still influence some unsettled weather and heavy rain and at least moderate winds to breezy conditions in parts of the north, Ireland, and western parts of the UK throughout this evening and into Friday, and the rain showers will also continue into this weekend in some of these places and for what is just outside our exact long-range dates of October 27 for this, but also without the wintry flavour we had expected it to coincide with from the north for this period.
"However, it will still turn colder in this period for many and as we had expected from either scenario, particularly during the evenings, and a sort of north and south divide establishes itself with the best and worst of the weather conditions over the coming days, in exception for some parts of the southwest."
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