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Daily Mirror
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Kieren Williams

Met Office confirms sudden stratospheric warming could impact UK in 'major' weather event

The Met Office has confirmed that a major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event is taking place - which could bring biting cold fronts to the UK like the Beast from the East.

Above the North Pole the winds are expected to reverse and go from east to west, instead of the usual west to east.

Such an event led to the ‘Beast from East’ which froze the nation in 2018.

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