NI cold snap set to continue

Published Monday, 30 January 2012

Weather forecasters are predicting further spells of icy conditions and snowy showers across parts of Northern Ireland, with a yellow warning issued by the Met Office.

Snow showers are possible across Northern Ireland in the coming days. (© PA)

The alert - urging the public to take extra care, especially when travelling - comes as temperatures look set to plummet elsewhere in the UK.

Raw easterly winds are being pushed in by a high pressure system over Scandinavia and western Russia, meaning that the mercury could fall as low as minus 10 degrees in places.

While it will be cold in Northern Ireland, daytime temperatures are expected to stay in single figures - but certainly above freezing - with night-time figures perhaps dipping to around minus 2 degrees.

It's a picture that is forecast to stay in place throughout the week and into the weekend, with frost, freezing fog and hill snow possible at times.

But the worst of the Arctic-influenced cold snap seems reserved for Wales and the west of England, with a cold weather amber alert (the Met Office's second most serious warning) in place.

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John McC in Belfast wrote (481 days ago):

What cold snap? What we are getting now is only a degree or two below the average. It is very common to get a spell of easterlies in the late winter or spring.

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NI cold snap set to continue

Weather forecasters are predicting further spells of icy conditions and snowy showers across parts of Northern Ireland, with a yellow warning issued by the Met Office.