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First Posted: 16/10/11 10:41 BST Updated: 16/10/11 11:07 BST   PA

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Cold winds, frost and even some snow are to hit Britain this week, signalling the end of the October heatwave.

The mercury peaked at an unseasonably high 18.3C in Gravesend, Kent, on Saturday but temperatures are set to drop in the coming days.

Andy Ratcliffe, a forecaster at MeteoGroup, said: "A cold front will start across Scotland and Northern Ireland on Monday, giving some heavy outbursts of rain which will turn to snow over the mountains in Scotland.

"The rain will spread further south into northern England and Wales by the end of the day."

Winds of up to 65mph are expected across north-western England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the odd rumble of thunder is possible.

"We will definitely feel a chill in the air," Mr Ratcliffe said. "The winds originate in the Arctic, but they get modified a lot as they arrive here."

Although the south of the country will enjoy highs of up to 17C on Sunday and into Monday, , it will feel much cooler across the UK on Tuesday, with highs of 14C in the south and 10C in Scotland.

On Wednesday night, temperatures will plunge to around 1C and could be as low as -1C in northern parts of the country.

Mr Ratcliffe said: "It's going to be pretty cold everywhere across the UK on Wednesday night, with widespread ground frost expected in the whole of the UK and perhaps air frost in places too."

However, by the end of the week conditions should be milder as a result of weather systems moving in from the Atlantic.


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Cold winds, frost and even some snow are to hit Britain this week, signalling the end of the October heatwave. The mercury peaked at an unseasonably high 18.3C in Gravesend, Kent, on Saturday but t...
Cold winds, frost and even some snow are to hit Britain this week, signalling the end of the October heatwave. The mercury peaked at an unseasonably high 18.3C in Gravesend, Kent, on Saturday but t...
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10:46 PM on 10/17/2011
Is that poor horse still stuck in that field ?
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06:22 PM on 10/16/2011
£12 billion pounds to combat global warming? The truth is that we are heading into another period of glaciation. Inter-glacial periods during this current Ice Epoch which has be lasting for 2,000,000 years usually last 12,000 years and since it is 12,000 years since the glaciers last retreated we are due another Ice-Age. Last December was the coldest on record and this summer was the coolest for 18 years. It is five years since the last really big heatwave. £12 billion could be better spent on dealing with the problems associated with it as well as reducing the national debt.
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07:51 PM on 10/18/2011
Another ice age? I would have thought we were still recovering from the Little Ice Age (~1550 - 1850). Sea level is rising at about 2mm/year - the two main causes are thermal expansion and meltwater. Ignore arctic ice and antarctic ice shelves- those are sea ice (floating). Himalayan glaciers and antarctic continential ice (resting on land) are the ones to watch.

But one thing I agree with you on is wasting money attempting to combat global warming. What the more paranoid AGW advocates fail to notice is that at least part of global warming is natural. Even if you shut down every single artificial CO2 emitter in the world, temperatures would still rise. Besides which, animals (including humans!) produce considerable amounts of both CO2 and methane, which is allegedly even more damaging. But you can't kill off the flatulent cows, as they'll release methane when decomposing...

So there's no way anyone can stop it. What can be done... (see next post!)
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07:51 PM on 10/18/2011
(continued from my previous post) ...are measures to decrease pollution in general, particularly in urban areas (no fun for pedestrians!), but more significantly to work out the likely short, medium and long term effects will be, and take action to adapt. Forget tales of the UK acquiring a Mediterranean climate, what's more likely to happen across the world as a whole is more variable weather, and more extreme weather events. So for example, instead of a month having 20 days of rain, it'll be dry for most of the month then dump the entire quota in a couple of days. It's increasingly common for reservoirs to drop several feet in depth over the summer and water companies to attempt to impose "hosepipe bans" (although farmers, golf courses and horse racing circuits are probably exempt), then for one or two areas situated on a flood plain to get hit with large floods when the rains do eventually arrive.
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06:34 PM on 11/23/2011
The one we need to be looking out for in our little bit of the globe are melting glacier ice in Greenland pouring into the North Atlantic cutting off ocean convection currents which moderate the climate in the UK and Northern Europe.
Without this moderation we would have climate fluctuations the same as other areas on our latitude such as Nova Scotia in Northern Canada, Siberia and Moscow.
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03:01 PM on 10/16/2011
Snowball fight!
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12:40 PM on 10/16/2011
So nothing new there then, it will soon be winter anyway.
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