Arctic blast to bring snow as Met Office issues three days of warnings – live

The record for the highest maximum temperature on a January day has just been broken after a provisional record was measured in northern Scotland.

The Met Office said they had recorded a 19.6C temperature on Sunday in Kinlochewe, a village in the northwest Highlands about an hour’s drive from Inverness.

A village in Scotland has provisionally set the UK record for temperature in January after hitting 19.6C, the Met Office has confirmed.

Kinlochewe in the north-west Highlands recorded the temperature on Sunday, rising above the previous record of villages Inchmarlo and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire which hit 18.3C in 2003 while Aber, Ceredigion, reached the same level in both 1958 and 1971.

The temperature, if confirmed, would also be the record for a winter’s day in Scotland.

In a post on X, the Met Office said: “There has provisionally been a new UK January daily max temperature record set today at Kinlochewe where the temperature reached 19.6C.

“This beats the previous January UK record of 18.3C set at Inchmarlo and Aboyne in 2003 and Aber in 1958 and 1971.”

Britain is set to be lashed by 70mph winds and heavy rain again, with the Met Office issuing four days of weather warnings.

The latest spate of bad weather began on Sunday morning, with three yellow warnings in place for parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In place until 8pm, strong and gusty winds are likely to cause some travel disruption, with some journeys taking longer than usual and potential delays to road, rail, air and ferry services.

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The north of the country will be hit by heavy rain stretching from the northeast to southwest England, the Met Office predicts.

There is a likelihood of Snow over higher grounds in the northern Pennines.

Elsewhere will be drier and cloudier and warmer as Scotland faces colder climes.

There are five flood warnings and 52 flood alerts across England today as more heavy rain is expected to hit the north of the country.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning from 7am to 7pm across northern Scotland this Wednesday.

Strong winds could cause danger to life and injuries from uprooted flying debris.

There is a chance of travel disruption with passengers told to expect longer journey times and possible cancellations.

The UK is currently facing a “three-way weather split” as different parts of the country face diverse condtions.

Craig Snell, meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “We’ve really got a weather front kind of slicing the country and that’s where the rain band is – to the south of it we’ve got the milder air, to the north of it the colder.

“So it’s going to be a cold front which is trying to push that that milder air away. It probably won’t win the day in the south, it will hang on to the milder air for a little bit longer.”

Regions caught in the rain, including southern Scotland, northern England and much of Wales, will see heavy and persistent showers in places and feel “pretty miserable” until rush hour on Tuesday morning, Mr Snell said.

The weather system will clear out into the North Sea by Tuesday, briefly leading to dry conditions across the country.

Another weather front will then move across northern parts of the UK by Wednesday, with yellow wind warnings in place for northern Scotland, but there will still be little rainfall and mild temperatures in the south.

A yellow rain warning covering large parts of Lancashire and Cumbria has been issued from 12pm on Monday to 5am on Tuesday, with around 40 to 50mm possible on high ground and the potential for localised disruption.

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There will be a “three-way split” in weather conditions across the UK on Monday, with a yellow rain warning issued for north-west England.