Forecaster warns heavy snow to return
HEAVY snow will hit Buckinghamshire again next week with temperatures plummeting as low as minus six degrees Celsius, a forecaster has warned.
Jim Dale, a senior risk meteorologist at High Wycombe based British Weather Services, said there could be as much as seven to ten days of ice and snow, as the current mild conditions quickly disappear.
Initially there will be hard overnight frosts at the beginning of the week, with a noticeable drop in temperature on Sunday or Monday.
Mr Dale said: “At the moment we are expecting snow showers in the Eastern counties, not us to begin with, but London, East Anglia and so on.
“As the week progresses particularly as we go towards next weekend we are expecting the return of significant snow for this area.
"We are looking at much colder regime of weather so winter is not finished with is yet.”
He said it was important for commuters to be prepared to de-ice their cars and watch out for worsening road conditions.
"The country can again expect disruption to it’s infrastructure, especially travel, with widespread school closures and possible power outages likely to add to the overall misery,” Mr Dale said.
The return of the cold snap would add further weight to the case that the Met Office’s mild winter predictions were “completely and utterly bogus”, he added.