A major sudden stratospheric warming is currently taking place over the North Pole, but any effect it may have on our weather in the UK would not happen until the first week of March, if it happens at all. According to the Met Office, the weather condition makes the jet stream "meander" more which in turn can lead to a large area of blocking high pressure over northern Europe.
It was a sudden stratospheric warming that lead to the so-called Beast from the East that hit the UK at the start of March 2018, but forecasters are saying that it is too early to say what effect it will have this time. There was a similar warming in 2019 but it had little impact on the weather for the UK and north-west Europe.
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