BRITS are set for a brutal Icelandic weather system which will bring with it plummeting temperatures and -5C frosts.
The high pressure is responsible for steering cold winds towards the UK which will weaken opening the doors to low-pressure systems from the west.
Jim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services, said: “Continental air will bring a colder start to the week before we see more of an influence from the Atlantic ahead of the weekend.
“This will bring more in the way of rain.
“We are in between winter and spring at the moment with the changes in weather associated with the transition.
“Britain is still the battleground between this colder Continental influence and the milder Atlantic conditions.”
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