UK faces a February Freeze worse than the Troll from Trondheim as arctic air ... trends now

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After the Troll from Trondheim in December and this week’s Nightmare from the North, Brits face what could be winter’s worst chill – a polar vortex February Freeze.

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.

A knock-on effect is a weaker jet stream, which usually brings our mild westerly Atlantic breezes, therefore opening the door to Arctic air plunging towards Britain, usually about two weeks later.