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We Britons are a calm group of people who don’t let major things upset us. We vote to leave the European Union sending the European continent into a frenzy, we have a cup of tea and stick our tongues out. Rain stops play in a Test Match against Australia, we just stick an archive test match on instead, yes, it takes a great deal to get us Britons to panic about anything, so you might imagine what our reaction would be to a major influx of cold Siberian air interacting with a low pressure system coming up from Spain?
However, the Met Office have very good reason to panic. The reason, well, that low pressure from Spain will squeeze the isobars so much that as it comes north, it will create gales in the Channel and as that cold air reaches the United Kingdom it will turn rapidly to snow and cross the entire country from south to north producing not just snow flurries but full out blizzards. And the last time the UK had blizzards on a countrywide scale? 1881!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_January_1881
I know that Agata is way the heck out in Siberia, but seeing -51C on that map for their daytime high is still disturbing to someone like me who gets cold when the temperature is +5C!
If you think that’s bad Mark, there is a forecast for a -15°C (6°F) windchill on Thursday evening which is the lowest ever recorded for this area.