Spectacular sunset image along canal in Wordsley - but is this the calm before the storm?

Express & Star reader Sally Shillingford took this spectacular sunset image along the canal in Wordsley.

It is just one of the glorious sunsets and rises we have enjoyed over the last week as settled air fixes itself over our region.

But there may be a shock on the way. The Met Office says a weather event that brought the Beast from the East to the UK in 2018 is “now likely to take place”.

The forecaster says a major sudden stratospheric warming is expected to happen in late February or early March. That would push out milder Atlantic air and encourage our weather to come from the frozen wilds of Eastern Europe.

In 2018, a sudden stratospheric warming brought the Beast from the East as the UK saw 22 inches of snowfall in some place, and £1.2 billion damage to the UK economy.