Met Office weather forecast as Birmingham wakes up to temperatures below freezing

Birmingham woke up to freezing temperatures on Thursday as the first cold snap of the season hit the UK. The Met Office weather forecast predicts the freezing weather is here to stay - at least throughout the week.

With cold air from the Arctic sweeping across the UK, the Met Office have issued several warning of ice and snow, Chief Meteorologist, Steve Willington, said: “As an Arctic maritime air mass settles across the UK, temperatures will fall with widespread overnight frosts, severe in places, and daytime temperatures only a few degrees above freezing.

“However, the cold air from the Arctic will also bring brighter conditions, with some dry, sunny spells, particularly away from the coast, and where winds are light it could feel pleasant in the sunshine. Some patchy freezing fog is also likely. ”

Birmingham will see a bright and sunny Thursday (December 8) with some light winds and patches of mist and fog early on. Temperatures will reach around 3°C, and it will feel cold and chilly throughout the day.

Some clouds will gather from the north later on in the evening with risks of some wintry showers overnight, but will clear up by Friday morning. Temperatures could drop as low as -7°C.

Met Office weather forecast for West Midlands

Friday will once again be cold and frosty but with lots of sunshine. Later in the day there might be some cloud moving in bringing wintry showers in the northwest. Temperatures around 2 °C.

Looking forward towards the weekend and into next week the weather will remain cold but dry and sunny. There’s a high risks of frost and icy patches  along with mist and fog forming over the weekend.