UK weather is set to get much windier, wetter and warmer when February gets underway - thanks to the difference in sea temperature on the other side of the world.
The Met Office is predicting that the cold snap that has seen freezing nights and frosty mornings over the West Country for a couple of weeks now will end, because of the ‘La Niña’ weather conditions currently in the Pacific Ocean.
The La Niña - which is the opposite conditions to El Niño - has been in place in the Pacific for the past couple of years, but climate experts in Australia and south east Asia say that’s changing, with an expectation that El Niño will return soon, bringing a return to scorching dry conditions in Australia.
