Weather forecast UK today – Met Office says temperatures will SOAR as ‘warm air mass’ hits London, Bristol and Glasgow

BRITAIN will soon be warming up after a record-breaking cold snap as a “warm air mass” hits the country.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Neil Armstrong said: “For the past week the UK has been in a very cold airmass with temperatures well below average.

“This will change through the weekend as milder air moves in from the Atlantic and pushes that cold airmass out into the North Sea. 

“From Monday the whole UK will be in the warmer air mass, with daytime temperatures reaching 12-13C in the south, replacing days which never got above freezing the week before.”

While its good news in the short term, the cold weather will unfortunately return next month when a 72-hour Arctic blitz sends temperatures to -1C.

Recent weather maps forecast an Arctic weather front approaching the UK in the last few days of February bringing freezing temperatures and snow.

According to WXCharts, from March 2 the mercury could dip as low as -2C in Scotland with temperatures averaging at 2C elsewhere in the UK. The cold snap is forecast to last for at least three days.

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