THE Met Office has warned people not to be lulled into a false sense of security by the warmer weather - as temperatures are set to plummet in the coming days.
The forecasting agency has even said a long spell of colder weather could see snow in Worcestershire next week.
The Met Office says it has recorded a sudden rise in temperatures at the North Pole, which usually triggers a phenomenon known as a polar vortex that leads to a cold weather spell.
Professor Adam Scaife, of the Met Office Hadley Centre, said: “Signs of this event appeared in forecasts from late January and in the last few days we have seen a dramatic rise in air temperature, known as a Sudden Stratospheric Warming, at around 30km above the North Pole.
"This warming results from a breakdown of the usual high-altitude westerly winds and it often leads to a switch in our weather, with cold easterly conditions more likely to dominate subsequent UK weather.”
Met Office computer simulations is predicting snow across the UK in late February as a direct result of the events at the North Pole.
Frank Saunders, chief operational meteorologist at the Met Office, added: “The outcome for the UK’s weather is still uncertain, but forecasts from computer models at the Met Office and at other centres are beginning to coalesce around a greater likelihood of cold conditions in the days and weeks to come.”
Forecasters are predicting temperatures to begin dropping below freezing in the county from Thursday, reaching as low as -3C over the weekend and into next week.
Snow showers are currently forecast for Worcestershire for the middle of next week.
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