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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matthew Young

UK weather: Rare phenomenon could bring snow and sudden cold snap as 'polar vortex' hits

Chilly Brits could face a further freeze next month with fears of a polar vortex forming.

The same phenomenon helped to cause 2018’s Beast from the East and the month-long Big Freeze in December 2010.

The Met Office said high-altitude polar vortex winds – which spin around the North Pole and keep cold air trapped in the Arctic – could fall significantly next week.

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