The New Year chiller: Snow and sub-無 気温s on the way by end of the week

By TOM KELLY

Last updated at 17:44 31 December 2007


終わりにする/要約する warm, the January shivers are on their way.

By the end of the week 気温s in many places will be below 無 and large areas will be covered in a 一面に覆う/毛布 of snow, 予報官s 警告するd yesterday.

コマドリ Downton, of the Met Office, said: "The 天候 is going to turn really 冷淡な during Wednesday and by Thursday it will feel jolly 冷淡な throughout the whole of the country apart from the very far West and South West.

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"There could 井戸/弁護士席 be snow in the East and North of England and eastern Scotland. There is a 重要な 危険 of a covering of snow.

"Thursday daytime 気温s will only be a degree or so above 無 and it could be just below 無 夜通し.

"Going into Thursday and Friday, there could be snow in areas その上の west, 含むing the Midlands, on higher ground."

Revellers 長,率いるing out to see in the New Year tonight will enjoy mostly 乾燥した,日照りの 天候 in England and むちの跡s but those in central and southern Scotland and Northern Ireland can 推定する/予想する rain, he 追加するd.

The 荒涼とした 予測s (機の)カム as it 現れるd that, with December almost over, it is now 確かな that 2007 will have been Britain's second hottest year of all time.

The 普通の/平均(する) tempera ture of 49.3F was only a fraction lower than last year's かつてない 記録,記録的な/記録する of 51.5F.

The next warmest year was 2003 which had an 普通の/平均(する) of 49.1F.

Dave Britton, of the Met Office, 追加するd: "Even though summer was very wet, it was still 比較して warm.

"The spring was very 穏やかな and 乾燥した,日照りの and October and November were pretty 穏やかな and December looks likely to be the same."

He 追加するd: "The six warmest years on the 記録,記録的な/記録する, which dates 支援する to 1914, are the last six years.

"That 示唆するs that 気候 change is happening and it is 影響する/感情ing the UK with warmer 気温s in the country.

"It is difficult to せいにする one warm year to 気候 change but, when you see six years in の近くに succession, that 示唆するs a 傾向."

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