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Bookies Have Dropped Odds For UK's Coldest February Ever

Bookies Have Dropped Odds For UK's Coldest February Ever

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for parts of the country for next week

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Winter is coming. Well, it's already winter, but an even more wintery winter is on the horizon, according to reports from the Met Office. The national weather forecaster has issued a yellow weather warning, with 80 mph gales and floods in the offing for the whole country.

A tropical breeze will bring the heaviest of the rain - though we doubt that it'll be tropical by the time it reaches our shores - and raise the temperature as high as 14 degrees in the south east of England and 13 further up the country before the temperature drops off a cliff towards the end of the week.

PA

"Sunday for many is likely to be very mild with temperatures likely to get into double figures for most," Grahame Madge of the Met Office, told the Mirror. "The day will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain or drizzle. The rain will be heaviest in parts of western Scotland.

"The following days will feature extensive cloud with some sunny breaks, but temperatures will return to values more typical for January by Wednesday. Wintry showers are likely over the higher areas during Wednesday."

Of course, whatever the weather, we'll all feel a lot better about if BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans reads it:

Scotland will bear the brunt of the weather and authorities north of the border are also issuing cautions for those in the affected regions. "On Sunday afternoon, our attention turns to more persistent rainfall in northwest and central Scotland.

"(This) could cause localised flooding from rivers already running high to agricultural land and isolated properties," said a statement from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

"Given the broad sweep of forecast rainfall, the areas most likely to be affected include, Findhorn Nairn Moray and Speyside, Easter Ross and the Great Glen, Skye and Lochaber, Argyll and Bute, and western parts of Tayside and Central."

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The weather warning may be concentrated on the Highlands of Scotland, but the cold snap will be felt everywhere. In fact, it is set to be so bad that bookies have slashed the odds on February being the coldest ever recorded to 2/1 after a rush of money from punters.

"It has been a bleak January as far as the weather is concerned and punters are backing next month to be a freezing cold one," said Harry Aitkenhead, a spokesman for bookmaker Coral.

Source: Daily Mirror

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Topics: Met Office, Weather, UK News, UK