Odds on white Christmas improve with freezing weather
December 10, 2009
This weekend’s cold snap increases the chances of many parts of the U.K. having a white Christmas according to weather experts. The Arctic conditions which are set to hit the county will mean that any rain falling is likely to turn to snow. November was the wettest since records began and senior weather-forecaster, Jonathan Powell says that weak rain fronts and freezing weather mean that this year we have the best chance of snow over Christmas since 2004. He said that the most likely areas for snow were Scotland and the east-coast but that snow could make its way in land and that even London could see some scattered snow showers.
The Met Office has not yet made any official comment on the possibility of a white Christmas but has said that it expects temperatures this weekend to drop well below zero in a number of areas. Bookmakers William Hill has now dropped the odds on snow at Christmas to just 3/1 in Aberdeen and 6/1 for Newcastle and London. Positive Weather Solutions who are an independent forecaster say that they predict a fifty-nine percent chance of snow falling over Scotland and the north-east, a fifty-five percent chance of snow on the east-coast and an eighteen percent chance in the south. Snow falling in the south-west is the most unlikely with just a ten percent chance.
Forecasters say that they think the rain deluges that have been battering the U.K. for the last two months are over and that now it is time for ice, sleet and snow.
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