UK and Europe weather chaos latest: 26 deaths, thousands trapped. TRIPLE polar vortex bringing HEAVY SNOW (updates in OP)

A RARE triple-vortex polar blast is threatening to thrust the UK into a snowy January as a plume of sub-zero air across Britain will lock the nation into Arctic misery until spring, forecasters have warned.

Near unprecedented changes in the atmosphere above the North Pole will collude to create a perfect storm of brutal weather drivers, experts warn. An unusually strong ‘dome’ of high pressure will send temperatures plunging through the coming nights as swathes of freezing ‘radiation fog’ blanket the country. Government health officials have issued a be ‘ready’ cold weather alert with freezing conditions predicted to grip the UK over the next few days.

A repeat of last year’s crippling Beast from the East threatens to unleash further mayhem across the country later this month, according to some weathermen.

Icy gales expected to sweep the nation through the coming weeks will send temperatures plummeting while milder westerlies are held at bay.

Bitter cold will be driven by a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) of the Arctic airmass causing a shift in wind direction across northern Europe.

Extreme cold weather could hold out through January and into February with the additional risk of heavy snow threatening widespread chaos.

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Update on 8th January:

It's sunny but cold here today on the North Yorkshire coast.

Where is my snow?

Two and a half meters of snow in Austria in past 48 hours. Nothing on southern part of the Alps though :/ just cold.

Snow in winter? Crazy times we live in.

Extreme cold, and extreme heat, can both be caused by "Global Warming" .

So can "extreme sameness"

Moral of the story: "Pay your damn carbon taxes!"

How many Carbon Credits have you paid, Lacey Underall?

Well...so far I have saved up enough points to buy a Tesla.

(Unfortunatley, it's a Tesla.)

Previous post was sarchasm....to show that no matter what the weather is doing, made made climate change is always reported to be the problem.

They want your money!

Where all the snow goes to die...

I don't get it.

With all the global warming going on .. finally we are back to getting some snow in winter. In the last two decades the problem was more the lack of snow in the ski regions.

Just last night we had all highway across high-frankonia in unpassable state and blocked in all ways. some guy needed 15 hours for a route that normally takes 20 minutes.

These clouds are now on the way down to the alps and generate another 1 meter of snow in areas that are already buried under up to 2 meters. Some areas have raised emergency status.

military is already assisting:

some latest news:
[link to www.br.de (secure)]

[link to www.infranken.de (secure)]

I love the countryside when it snows so bring it on please!!!

No snow yet.. looks like none expected into next week either ?