Well.... This is one of those sort of articles where we take a look at the latest weather output and then try to concoct a headline and then spend the rest of the article trying to explain that it's not quite as clear cut as one might imagine.
So, let the backtracking commence. In fact, the process starts later this weekend after a rather brief cold shot of air from the North. As the low pressure which brings the colder air heads away to the East later on Saturday and into Sunday we find high pressure building to the South of the UK. For snow lovers this is not a particularly good location as it allows the European High to build to the South of us. No doubt some of you will say "Oh no! Not the European High!" and others might think "Err OK, so the European High... What's the big deal? We voted to leave anyway didn't we?"
The European High is a feature which is rather common to the Southeast of the UK. It usually allows milder air to approach from the Southwest, but in any clear skies overnight we can expect fog, frost and other rather benign weather to develop, in particular for Southern areas.
The good news though is that this is a well defined weather singularity and tends to affect the UK for many years around the middle to end of December before more unsettled weather heads in around Christmas bringing rain and later colder weather as winds swing around to the Northwest.
The bad news is that the European high is a difficult old feature to remove. It's one of those things which usually over stays its welcome, a bit like the in-laws staying over Christmas when you say to them on the 27th "I thought you guys were heading off today?" Only for them to reply "We thought we would stay until the New Year..."
The face you pull when you read that is very similar to the one meteorologists pull when you mention the European High.
METEOROLOGIST : STAYINGFORANOTHERWEEK
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