BIG SIBERIAN FREEZE TO HIT BRITAIN


Heavy snowfall last year disrupted traffic during December

Wednesday November 2,2011
By Nathan Rao
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BRITAIN faces a sudden shivering end to the exceptionally warm late autumn with temperatures plunging towards Siberian levels.

Winter weather will arrive with a vengeance with temperatures well below zero within the next fortnight.

Experts then predict a bitterly cold December with thermometers falling at least as low as -15C (5F).

Snow could hit the country even earlier than last year when a big freeze at the end of November sent temperatures to -20C (-4F), crippling transport. And some forecasters fear that temperatures could plunge as low or even lower this winter.


Snow on the railways earlier this year

Jonathan Powell of Positive Weather SolÂ*utions said: “It will not be as sustained as last year, but these episodes are expected to be severe, with Siberian temperatures.â€