Bookies have slashed the odds on next month being the coldest March on record.
It comes after warnings Britain may be plunged into the freezer by a chilly Arctic blast.
The chance of dramatic temperature change is being blamed on a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) and polar vortex, the same phenomenon which brought freezing air to the UK in the form of the “Beast from the East” in 2018.
