Much colder weather will arrive across Britain next week, with widespread frost, falling temperatures and snow in some areas.

Things will start to cool again on Saturday as a cold front moves south, with the air becoming increasingly colder next week as an Arctic air mass settles in.

This change in weather fortunes comes about thanks to a blocking area of ​​high pressure building over Greenland, dumping cold Arctic air over Britain and developing bitter northerly winds.

The fact that this pattern has established itself in late November means that we are in for cold weather for this time of year, but temperatures would have been much lower if this system had been set up in mid-winter when the Arctic is much colder is.