Winter Gripping Britain, and It's Not Over Yet - By a Long Shot

Winter Gripping Britain, and It's Not Over Yet - By a Long Shot

WORCESTER, England, February 3/PRNewswire/ -- Over a foot of snow in some places, travel chaos and bitter temperatures
have been the major news story in recent days, and there is plenty more to
come.

In the shorter term, further snow will develop during Wednesday
particularly over the north of the country. Thursday could see another major
snow event with significant falls of snow affecting England and Wales - with
the Midlands perhaps the most likely region to suffer the worst. Even into
the weekend the cold stays over the UK with more snow likely yet again.

Paul Michaelwaite of Netweather.tv comments:

"Thursday is the next day we're really watching closely as a low pressure
system moving up from the southwest meets cold air pushing down from the
north, which is likely to bring some very heavy and persistent snow to many
areas."

Further in advance, long range signals are suggesting that the current
cold could pale into insignificance in comparison with what may be on the way
later in the month.

Long range expert at Netweather.tv Stewart Rampling explains:

"Events in the stratosphere give a very good indication of the likely
weather patterns within a few weeks and an unprecedented warming event which
occurred recently, points toward the possibility that this cold spell could
be just a pre-cursor to an even more bitter period during the second half of
February."

The probability of an exceptionally cold and snowy period of weather
during the second part of the month is very much increasing and could be the
sting in the tail of what has already been a cold winter by recent standards
in particular.

Stewart Rampling continues:

"It is exceptionally rare for such a stratospheric warming event to occur
during a La Nina period, and as such we are entering virtually unknown
territory, which could mean some quite extreme weather conditions."

Netweather.tv further information

Established in 2003, Netweather.tv are one of the leading independent
weather forecasting companies in the UK supplying weather forecasts and data
to a range of companies in various industries as well as maintaining one of
the UK's most popular weather websites (http://www.netweather.tv).

For further information, quotes or interviews please contact Paul
Michaelwaite on +44(0)1386-576121 or email media@netweather.tv

Source: Netweather.tv

For further information, quotes or interviews please contact Paul Michaelwaite on +44(0)1386-576121 or email media@netweather.tv

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