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Your support makes all the difference.Most of Britain is set to enjoy a welcome respite from wintry conditions, as temperatures rise on Friday and over the weekend.
Despite snow across much of the UK in recent days, Met Office forecasters are predicting milder weather is on the way.
Temperatures could be as high as 12C, Becky Mitchell, a Met Office meteorologist, said: “Today it’s going to be on the milder side.”
Rain is expected and a brisk breeze in Scotland and northern England, but for most it will be cloudy and dry on Friday through to Saturday.
But the respite will not last long, as a new weather front sweeps in on Sunday bringing heavier rain and clearing away the milder air.
“It will be come colder across the whole country by Sunday afternoon,” Ms Mitchell said. “We will be back to a chillier feel of things.
“We will probably be looking at max temperatures of six or seven and in some places colder than that.
“We could see a return of minus double digits in some rural parts of northern Scotland.”
Along with plunging mercury, the UK will see a return of “all the wintry hazards”, Ms Mitchell reported.
The Arctic conditions seen across Britain in recent days have wreaked havoc on the transport network, with cars skidding off the roads on black ice and some railway lines too frozen over for trains to run.
By the start of next week there will be a risk of ice in many places, as well as sleet, snow and widespread frost.
And the freezing weather looks set to last a while, Ms Mitchell added. “Once that weather front moves through that will bring a mixture of sleet, snow and rain. That colder air is likely to stay around for the whole week.”
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