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UK weather – Brits brace for -3C icy plunge with MORE cold weather coming next week
BRITS are braced for freezing temperatures as low as -3C as even MORE cold weather is expected next week.
It follows a chilly start of April after parts of the country were covered in snow.
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Today, Brits are in for a sunny Sunday with temperatures hitting 10C across parts of the country after a freezing night.
A few showers remain possible for central parts of the country as it gets cloudier further north with rain arriving from the northwest during the day - but it is milder than Saturday overall.
It comes after -3C was recorded in Scotland on Friday and the Met Office issued a yellow warning for ice yesterday.
The warning, which stretches along the east of the country between the Scottish Borders and Lincolnshire, was in place between midnight and 10am.
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However, the sunny weather is likely to be brief, with bands of rain and wind forecast for the week ahead.
Jim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services, told : "There is no sign yet of any return to the warm and sunny weather that we saw at the end of March.
"Temperatures will move back towards average at the start of the week, but this will be accompanied by more unsettled conditions from the Atlantic.
"Winter can always bite back at this time of year, and well into April. It is going to turn colder again towards the end of the week, and there will be the risk of further snow."
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The Met Office said the weather will be cloudy with rain on Monday, particularly in the west many while eastern areas will be dry with some brightness.
Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud told the wintry weather will continue over the weekend but temperatures are set to rise on Monday as the Arctic air system moves away.
He said: "It's generally dry and cold, if not slightly less cold than we have had for the next few days.
"We've got an Arctic air flow established at the moment, that's coming from a cold source.
"So we've basically got cold, clear air established across the UK.
"There's also a lot of clear and sunny skies, especially to the western parts of the UK."
However, the UK is bracing for more freezing weather later in the week, with many northern areas set to be battered by rain on Tuesday.
Scotland will brace for snow on Wednesday as showers is forecast to hit other parts of the country.
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