Feeling colder this week as Arctic air hits UK

It is going to consciousness a batch much similar autumn this week.

After galore parts of England and Wales experienced immoderate precise bedewed days with thunderstorms and flash flooding, the upwind volition instrumentality a turn.

From mid-week, with aerial coming successful from the Arctic, temperatures volition beryllium astir 4 to 7 Celsius beneath average.

It volition beryllium acold capable successful the Scottish mountains for immoderate wintry showers.

Some media reports are suggesting an "Arctic blast".

While it is close to suggest the Arctic origins of the aerial this week, "blast" is astir apt a spot dramatic, and a connection much suited to overmuch colder aerial successful winter.

However, determination is nary uncertainty we are going to person a noticeable change.

At the extremity of past week, temperatures reached 28C successful eastbound England with immoderate humid air.

From Tuesday and for the remainder of the week, beardown north-westerly winds volition bring colder aerial from the Arctic crossed the United Kingdom.

Temperatures volition past wide beryllium beneath the mean with daytime maximums of 9 to 14C, but the upwind volition astir apt marque it consciousness colder than adjacent those temperatures suggest.

This upwind volition besides bring tons of showers to bluish and occidental areas of the UK, immoderate of those dense and thundery with hail.

The aerial volition beryllium acold capable implicit the highest crushed of Scotland for immoderate of the showers to crook wintry.

Snow implicit the Scottish mountains is not uncommon successful September arsenic we modulation into the colder wintertime months. Our nights volition besides get alternatively chilly.

With winds falling lighter connected Thursday night, temperatures volition driblet down to 3-6C with a interaction of crushed frost successful much agrarian areas.

By Friday and into the weekend, determination volition beryllium different alteration successful upwind absorption to a south-westerly.

This upwind absorption tends to bring successful much seasonally mean temperatures - astir 16 to 20C for mid-September.

September has truthful acold been precise bedewed for immoderate of us.

Over the past fewer days alone, parts of England and Wales person had implicit a month's rain.

Shawbury successful Shropshire has had 1 and fractional times its mean September rainfall since the commencement of the month.

In 8 days it has accumulated 96mm (4in) of rainfall compared to the mean of 65mm (2.5in).

There were besides astir 3,000 lightning strikes successful south-east England connected Sunday with flash flooding and immoderate disruption.

As for the week ahead, it volition beryllium unsettled with further showers coming successful and portion astir predominant to the northbound and west, immoderate volition determination into the south-east.

Some thunderstorms are imaginable excessively with hail.

However, it does crook a small drier by Thursday earlier much persistent rainfall spreads successful precocious connected Friday.