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19-03-2025 Vol 19

Met Office ‘almost safe’ sudden stratospheric warming will hit Britain when cold snap sweeps by sending temperatures that occur

Met Office has declared that it is “almost certain” that a sudden stratospheric warming will hit Britain in mid -March, which potentially brings a cold snap to Britain.

A spokesman for the meteorological service told GB News: “The stratosphere Polar Vortex is now weakening rapidly.”


“Over the past few days, the forecasts have become very safe and we are almost sure that there will be a sudden stratospheric warming in mid -March. This is when the middle stratospheric wind is expected to return from western to eastern.”

Temperatures are expected to throw themselves when the weather phenomenon grabs the country.

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The polar velvy could beat Britain

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The spokesman explained that about 70 percent of sudden stratospheric warming events lead to cold conditions with eastern winds over Northern Europe and Britain.

A sudden stratospheric warming occurs when the layer between 10 and 50 km above the earth’s surface is heated by 50 degrees in just two days.

This scientific phenomenon weakens the polar vertebra, which is a large area of ​​low pressure and cold air rotating around the soil poles.

When weakened, the vortex allows freezing Arctic air to move south, which often brings extreme weather conditions.

The polar velvy corresponds to the jet stream eight to 11 km above the earth’s surface.

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\ U200Btememperatures could fall later this month

Temperatures could fall later this month

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Met Office has stated that there is “now signs of this in the forecast and the risk of a cold snap later in March increases.”

This will be the second Polar Vortex breakdown in 2025, after February’s event that caused deep freezers over North America.

Accuweather’s main meteorologist Paul Pastelok told The Independent: “We predict a shift of the polar vortex on Europe and eastern Canada side of the polar.”

The timing is still uncertain, but experts suggest that the pattern change could arrive at the end of March to early April. Parts of the US and Canada are already preparing for falling temperatures.

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Large shards of the land was the blanket of snow in January

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The previous Polar Vortex collapse in February brought chaos over the US and Canada with snow, storms and freezing temperatures swept North America.

Millions of Americans were affected by severe winter conditions where states experienced dangerously cold temperatures.

Some areas so that temperatures affected -45 ° F with -60 ° F winds, according to meteorologists.

The extreme weather led to thousands of cancellations and delays nationwide. Met Office added: “SSWs don’t always affect our weather, but if they do, it may take a few weeks before influences can be felt on the ground surface.”

The British are recommended that it may still be too early to retire on winter cabinets despite the spring arrival.

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