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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 18/11/2024. It’s going to be a cold week with frost ice and some places seeing snow. Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin

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00:00Welcome to your weather for this week with extensive frosts, some ice and yes

00:05in places some snow. By far and away the coldest week of the autumn so far, didn't

00:11start off cold everywhere we hung on to some milder conditions across the south

00:16for Monday morning. There's a little ripple running across the UK more on

00:20that in a moment but generally speaking the cold air is in place and it will

00:24push the milder air away. It tries to get in at times across the south but

00:27generally much of the UK in the cold air through the week thanks to northerly

00:32winds. Now that little ripple we saw earlier is important because it's tied

00:37into this area of low pressure. For snow you need cold and moisture and this low

00:42will provide some moisture so where it hits that colder air generating some

00:46snow on Monday night over parts of Northern Ireland, Northern England and as

00:50it pushes further south we'll see some for North Wales, the Midlands and perhaps

00:54even parts of East Anglia. So yes there are Met Office warnings in place for the

00:58details of those check out the Met Office app and the Met Office website.

01:03But a cold start to Tuesday could be waking up to a covering of snow, the

01:07potential for ice where we've seen any wet weather and still some flurries

01:11coming in as this low clears away across parts of Eastern England. So not a very

01:16pleasant morning commute with a mixture of rain sleet and snow and that ice risk.

01:20Snow showers still coming in across Northern Scotland, outbreaks of rain

01:24across the far south and a brisk and really cold wind coming across parts of

01:28Eastern England. That will continue to throw showers in through the day, mostly

01:32they will be of rain by this stage but across Northern Scotland snow showers

01:36continue to come in. For a good chunk of Northern Britain it'll actually be a fine

01:41sunny day but in the south I think it'll be generally cloudy with always some

01:46rain showers across parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. In those snow

01:51showers across Northern Scotland the yellow warning remains in place for snow

01:54and ice that's in place through Tuesday night as well. Temperature wise well many

01:59places really struggling three or four degrees this time last week we were ten

02:03degrees higher. When you add on that wind particularly on these North Sea coasts

02:07it's going to feel a lot colder. That low-pressure system continues to pull

02:11away on Tuesday night and into Wednesday opening up the door to those northerly

02:15winds right across the UK so a cold day everywhere. We'll see those showers still

02:21coming in on that northerly wind across Northern Scotland so an ice risk here

02:25but also a few showers filtering in through the northerly wind across parts

02:29of Northern Ireland, West Wales. Mostly there will be of rain here but some snow

02:33on the hills and the chance of some of these wintry showers grazing Eastern

02:37England where again a significant wind chill. Temperatures again for most places

02:42four or five degrees so well below average. Still a bit milder in the

02:46southwest but even here these temperatures are lower than they have

02:49been for much of the autumn so far. When you add on that wind this is what it

02:53will feel like so feeling sub-zero particularly those strong winds across

02:57North East Scotland but right down the eastern side of England it's going to

03:01feel sub-zero. So yes a cold day on Wednesday, a cold night to come. We've still

03:07got the northerly winds in place. Bit of a question mark for Thursday about low

03:11pressure systems. These weather fronts again they could provide some moisture

03:15which when hitting the cold air could provide a little bit of snow in places

03:20so that's something we need to watch for Thursday. Continued risk of snow showers

03:24around the coast. Small chance of seeing some in the southwest but they could

03:27also bring some milder air in here with temperatures back up to seven to nine

03:31Celsius whereas elsewhere again four five degrees Celsius where it's windy

03:36feeling sub-zero. By the time we get to Friday we've still got low pressure

03:41systems generally to the east. We're still opening up the isobars. The wind's

03:45coming in from the north. Perhaps the isobars spacing out a little bit so

03:49maybe not quite so windy but still a cold day with a hard frost to start the

03:54day certainly across northern Britain and then plenty of sunshine for northern

03:59England much of Scotland but we'll see a few more showers again in the west. Again

04:03mostly of rain at low levels across Wales but some snow on the hills and a

04:07weather system trying to push into the far northwest but for many I suspect

04:11Friday is going to be dry and fire with sunny spells. Cold again but maybe

04:15double digits down to the southwest and behind me further down to the southwest

04:20some wet weather is gathering. That is an area of low pressure that is going to

04:25swing its way in across the country and really mix things up for the weekend.

04:28Look at the isobars pulling together on that. That means it's going to turn windy

04:32and this low will bring wet weather but what it's also going to do is push away

04:37the colder air. So the cold air in place all this week but as this system arrives

04:42Friday night and into Saturday it will bring milder air as they combine. There

04:47could be some temporary snow but I think the biggest threat from this weather

04:51system is going to be the wind and the rain for the weekend. A busy and lively

04:56week of weather coming up. Please keep up to date with the Met Office warnings on

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Week Ahead 18/11/2024 – A wintry week

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