BRRRRRRRITAIN IS COLD!

HERE'S WHAT BRITAIN LOOKED LIKE FROM OUTER SPACE:

HERE'S WHY: DAILY TELEGRAPH:

Parts of northern England and central Scotland have seen lows of (0F) -18C while the mercury has continued to drop in the south this week. But apart from a brief respite over the coming weekend, when temperatures are expected to climb slightly, the cold snap is likely to continue throughout Christmas and well into January, the Met Office warned yesterday.

The weather forecasters have suggested that if the temperature continues at this low level for the rest of the year, this December could replace 1981 as the coldest December since records began in 1910.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

Updates: Prepare for the coldest December in 120 years, say weather experts

Lincolnshire has been under a veil of snow and ice as temperatures remain in minus figures.

ANOTHER blast of sustained wintry weather is waiting in the wings to bring Lincolnshire to a standstill over Christmas, according to meteorologists.

British Weather Services has echoed the Met Office's outlook for the Christmas week and said Arctic weather over Scandinavia and northern Russia will make inroads back into the north and east of the UK as early as Tuesday.

This puts this winter on course to be the coldest December since 1890 and one of the snowiest – vying with the Decembers of 1981 and 1878 for the title.

Jim Dale, senior risk meteorologist at British Weather Services said: "I am 90 per cent sure that we will see a Christmas fraught with harshness and hazards and the grip of winter could well hold us tight well into the new year."

MORE: Huddersfield on target for coldest winter since records began

DON’T put away those long johns just yet as December could be the coldest month ever.

That’s the view of Huddersfield weather expert Paul Stevens who has revealed this month is on course to be a record breaker.

While a minor thaw is coming this weekend the big freeze is set to continue next week with temperatures dropping even lower.

Temperatures so far this month have averaged -1.9°C, almost twice as cold as the last harsh winter in 1981.

If the trend continues it will be the coldest month since records began in 1740.

Paul said: “There’s a long way to go but it could be the coldest on record.

“The first eight days have been the coldest we’ve seen for 100 years.

“The average temperature is six degrees below the normal.

“That might not sound a lot but if you applied it to the whole of the earth we would be in an ice age.

AGW = TFBS.