BRITS will start to shiver this weekend as the temperature takes a dip and causes frost and fog patches to set-in.

The Met Office warned there will be heavy rain this weekend along with chilly conditions in the start of a cold snap.

Forecasters said the mercury will stay around 8C to 15C throughout the day, but it could dip to 4C overnight.

There could also be some overnight frosts and patches of fog in the south, according to the Met Office.

The wettest parts of the country on Saturday will be eastern Scotland, South East Scotland and North East England with up to 20mm of rain falling in some places.

Steven Keats, a Met Office Meteorologist told The Sun Online: "On Saturday morning there will be showers in the west and south coast, central and eastern Scotland.

"Elsewhere there will be dry and bright weather and some fog patches.

"It will be a persistent day in central Scotland and then push south into North England and Northern Ireland.

"The wettest parts of the country on Saturday will be eastern Scotland, South East Scotland and North East England.

"We could see about 15mm to 20mm of rain in those parts and in West Wales we could see between 10mm and 15mm of rain.

"Some parts of central and eastern England will be dry almost all day."

Showers will continue to tumble down the North Sea coast on Sunday, but temperatures will start to drop to below freezing next week.

Mr Keats said: "Overnight there will be showers overnight around the coast in the west, east and north with clear spells developing elsewhere.

"It will take us into the Sunday morning where widely inland it will be a chilly start to the day with temperatures between 3C and 5C.

"There will still be a few showers coming down the North Sea coasts and a few drifting to the western side of the UK."

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COLD SNAP

By Monday parts of the north will start to see frost appear and mornings will be chillier than they have been the past few weeks.

In some places the mercury could dip to -4C and the high in some places will barely hit double digits.

Mr Keats added: "The early part of next week will be a little bit cooler.

"On Monday morning parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland could be down to as low as -3C and -4C in some spots.

"In the northeast and north it could be as low as -2C and -3C.

"There will be some chilly mornings to watch out for and some frost to watch out for as well.

"By Tuesday it will be around a high of 10C in Northern Scotland and about 15C or so in the south.

"Nights will be chilly and there will be more overnight frost.

Forecasters fear Britain is about to be plunged into a miserable wet and snowy winter – the coldest in 30 years.

Exacta weather forecaster, James Madden said: "October is now looking like it will turn out to be colder than average with more of a chance of something wintry setting in through the second half of the month.

"There is a strong chance of widespread frosts and the chance of snowfall which will set the scene for November.

"This will pave the way for what is shaping up to be a colder than average winter with some extreme cold weather events.

"While these could start to make an impact within the next few weeks they will be particularly troublesome from December onward.

"Snow events have been few and far between in recent years, but this winter is looking favourable to bring snow event after snow event as weather systems from the Atlantic clash with cold stagnated air over the UK."

That could mean a bitterly cold spell to rival the freezing winter of 1963, which is said to have been the coldest for 200 years.

Mike Saunders, a professor of climate prediction at University College, London told The Sunday Times last month: "This would rank the 2020 January-February central England temperature as the coldest winter since 2013.

"It would also rank January-February 2020 as the seventh coldest winter in the past 30 years."

Temperatures are predicted to go as low as -14C, reminiscent of the 'Beast from the East' which covered the UK in a blanket of snow in 2018.

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