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Now Britain's on SNOW ALERT: -10C Arctic blast to bring three inches after storm chaos

STORM-hit Britain is now braced for a -10C (14F) winter blast to bring more than three inches of snow to remote areas later this week.

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A sharp twist in the jet stream is about to open the floodgate to bitter Arctic winds bringing freezing fog and widespread frosts.
Sleet and snow is forecast as far south as Wales and the Midlands by the weekend with wintry showers possible across the country.
The chilly outlook comes as Britain reels in the aftermath of devastating Storm Imogen which struck on Monday.
Thousands of homes were yesterday still without power as torrential rain and winds of up to 100mph lashed swathes of the country.
Although the gales have died down Britain faces a new twist in the winter weather as bitter winds send thermometers plunging.
It threatens further misery for flood-hit regions with saturated ground likely to turn in to lethal sheets of ice.
Experts say the jet stream, which has until now been positioned north steering storms in from the Atlantic is about to dive southwards.
Leon Brown, forecaster for The Weather Company, said: “The forecast has a changed a bit for later this week with the jet stream a bit further south and hence Atlantic weather systems keeping further south.

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