All across the country people woke up to bitter temperatures this morning as freezing cold weather swept in from Russia.
By Wednesday night, it’s predicted that more than 20cm of snow will have built up in eastern England and Northern Ireland. And Scotland is expected to have between 5cm and 10cm of snow on Wednesday.
Met Office meteorologist Charlie Powell told the Guardian: “The UK is on track for some really cold weather this week. It’s not going to be record-breaking, but it’ll be pretty exceptional - winds are going to make it feel minus 10C (14F) to minus 15C (5F) during the day.”
It’s even been reported that parts of the UK will be colder than the Arctic Circle. So, using Bodø (below) in northern Norway as our reference point, we found out the cities in the UK that will rival or surpass the Arctic for being unacceptably cold, according to the Met Office and BBC Weather.
Now, Bodø is pretty damned cold with an average temperature this week of around 0C and a low point of -5C on Tuesday. But, depressingly, there are cities in the UK that will get even colder than that:
1. Aberdeen
Average temperature of -1C on Thursday (compared to 0C in Bodø)
2. Peterborough
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
3. Birmingham
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
4. Cambridge
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
5. Coventry
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
6. Milton Keynes
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
7. Derby
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
8. Nottingham
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
9. Leicester
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
10. Wolverhampton
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
11. Bradford
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
12. Luton
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
13. Norwich
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
14. Bath
Low point of -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
15. Oxford
Low points of -6C on Tuesday (compared to -5C in Bodø) and -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
16. Reading
Low point of -6C on Tuesday (compared to -5C in Bodø)
17. Exeter
Low points of -6C on Tuesday (compared to -5C in Bodø) and -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
18. Stoke-on-Trent
Low points of -6C on Tuesday (compared to -5C in Bodø) and -5C on Wednesday (compared to -4C in Bodø)
19. Bournemouth
Low point of -7C on Tuesday (compared to -5C in Bodø)
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