Large parts of Nottinghamshire are bracing for wintry showers and heavy rain as temperatures dramatically plummet. It comes after weeks of heavy wind and rain across the UK, which has led to widespread flooding in some areas, including Nottingham.
As we approach the winter months, that heavy rainfall is now set to turn into sleet as the possibility of snow edges closer. According to BBC Weather’s first sleet forecast in Nottinghamshire, the freezing rain is set to fall in a number of towns and villages.
Forecasters predict sleet and light winds a week on Friday, in the morning and into the afternoon (November 21) across much of the region.
Temperatures are expected to plunge below freezing. While varying temperatures will hover around 1C to 3C, the wind chill will make it feel significantly colder across the county.
The worst of the conditions will hit Nottingham from 1am on November 21, with sleet showers and a gentle breeze making it feel like -1C despite actual temperatures staying at 2C until 8am.
Similar conditions are expected in Mansfield, with sleet and light winds from 1am on Friday when temperatures will feel like -3C. Sleet showers are expected to last until 11am, past which point light rain and a gentle breeze will remain until 10pm.
Elsewhere across the county, Newark is forecast to experience sleet and a gentle breeze from 1am to 9am on Friday. In Worksop, sleet showers are expected from 1pm until 8pm on Friday, with an unexpected sunny interval at 9pm, before a return to drizzle and a gentle breeze at 10pm.
Temperatures are expected to feel like -1C despite an actual temperature of 2C overnight. A spokesperson for the Met Office said: “Overnight frost will be widespread, especially in the north.
“Towards the middle of next week, an area of rain and stronger winds may move southeast across much of the UK, bringing a brief less cold spell, before a resumption of the cold northerly airflow with further wintry showers.”
The cold snap comes as persistent grey skies and low cloud meant last month was one of the UK’s dullest Octobers on record. The country had an average of just 63.3 hours of sunshine, the lowest total for October in nearly 60 years, according to provisional data from the Met Office.
