UK weather: Charts show high probability of snow in UK
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Maps by WXCharts have predicted snow will hit the UK by February 9 as temperatures plunge but chief meteorologist for the Met Office John Hammond has claimed the snow could come as soon as January 27. Charts show temperatures falling to -7C in parts of the UK.
Mr Hammond told The Sun: “Briefly on Thursday (27) a pulse of Arctic air will clip some northern and eastern areas, bringing some wintry showers to the Scottish mountains and perhaps the highest parts of northern England.
“There are signs of a more lively start to February – it looks wetter and windier at times than for much of the previous month.
“We may see colder weather start to make more definite inroads from the north through the early days of the new month, turning some of that rain to snow.”
The last snow warning for the UK came on January 3 for Scotland as conditions have remained widely moderate.
It comes as a blanket of heavy snow covered the Greek capital on Monday, from the Acropolis hill to the coast in the south, disrupting air traffic, bringing transport and COVID-19 vaccinations to a halt, and forcing schools to close.
As the storm, named Elpida, swept across Greece, snow-covered Athens, and its suburbs.
Rescue crews freed drivers stranded for hours on Athens’ ring road.
Heavy snowfall is usually rare in Athens, but the city has now been hit by snowstorms for a second consecutive year.
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Train and bus services in the capital were suspended.
Six passengers were slightly injured when a rail transport vehicle tried to pull their train halted in heavy snow in central Greece.
COVID-19 vaccination facilities in the wider Athens region and on the nearby island of Evia were closed, health officials said.
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State services, schools, non-essential shops, and banks in those two areas and on many Greek islands, including Crete, will also be shut on Tuesday as the cold spell was expected to persist until Wednesday.
“It will be a difficult night,” said Christos Stylianides, Greece’s climate crisis, and civil protection minister.
Greek carrier Aegean Airlines cancelled all but five flights on Monday and said it expected schedules to be disrupted on Tuesday and possibly Wednesday.
Turkish authorities also had to halt flights at Istanbul Airport due to heavy snowfall in the city, while the wintery weather snarled transportation across the country.
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