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| Cold UK weather to continue through weekend | Cold UK weather to continue through weekend |
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| The cold and cloudy weather is set to continue through the weekend and well into next week, broken up only by occasional snow showers and patches of drizzle, the Met Office has said. | The cold and cloudy weather is set to continue through the weekend and well into next week, broken up only by occasional snow showers and patches of drizzle, the Met Office has said. |
| Although parts of Kent could see up to 2cm of snow on Saturday morning, the rest of the UK is unlikely to feel anything more than the odd snowflake, with temperatures continuing to hover in the low single figures. | Although parts of Kent could see up to 2cm of snow on Saturday morning, the rest of the UK is unlikely to feel anything more than the odd snowflake, with temperatures continuing to hover in the low single figures. |
| "It'll be a continuation of the same in many respects," said a Met Office spokesman. "It's going to be generally cloudy and cold right the way through the weekend and into Monday. But it'll be nothing extreme. A lot of people have been talking about it being awfully cold and the wind chill feeling, but we're still looking at low single figures by day and nothing much more than 4 or 5C." | "It'll be a continuation of the same in many respects," said a Met Office spokesman. "It's going to be generally cloudy and cold right the way through the weekend and into Monday. But it'll be nothing extreme. A lot of people have been talking about it being awfully cold and the wind chill feeling, but we're still looking at low single figures by day and nothing much more than 4 or 5C." |
| He said that after a dry, cold and cloudy Sunday, temperatures would start to pick up very gradually from the beginning of next week. | He said that after a dry, cold and cloudy Sunday, temperatures would start to pick up very gradually from the beginning of next week. |
| "Temperatures on Monday will be fractionally better – so 5 or 6C as a high rather than 4 or 5C," he said. | "Temperatures on Monday will be fractionally better – so 5 or 6C as a high rather than 4 or 5C," he said. |
| "But it'll be a slow old process and even by Tuesday and Wednesday, we'll still be looking at light drizzle and maybe a few snowflakes here and there." | "But it'll be a slow old process and even by Tuesday and Wednesday, we'll still be looking at light drizzle and maybe a few snowflakes here and there." |
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