Reuniting with family, binging TV specials, exchanging gifts, eating enough chocolate, cheese and roast potatoes to send you into a food coma – there’s loads to look forward to as Christmas Day approaches. But you know what would top it all off? A thick, glistening blanket of snow.
There’s nothing like some snowfall to make Christmas Day feel that little bit more magical. While there’s been smatterings of festive snow in recent years, it’s been a long time since that UK had the dense kind you see on cards or in Hallmark movies.
Here’s what forecasters are telling us to expect this year.
Will there be a White Christmas in the UK this year?
Snow is notoriously hard to predict, so it’s still too early to say for absolute certain whether we’ll see a white Christmas. That said, it doesn’t take much for a Christmas is officially be deemed ‘white’. Just one single snowflake has to be recorded falling at any moment on December 25 by any of the Met Office’s network of around 300 observing stations.
The last white Christmas in the UK was in 2023, when 11 percent of the Met Office’s weather stations recorded snow falling, but none of it settled. The last time we got a thick, countrywide blanket of snow on Christmas Day was 2010.
What does the Met Office forecast say?
The Met Office says that between December 19 and December 28: ‘Showers or longer spells of rain are likely to continue at first for many parts of the country, perhaps heavy at times, but gradually over the weekend the weather is expected to become more settled.’
It says that there may be overnight frosts and morning fog, but there’s no mention of snow.
What does the BBC’s forecast say?
At the moment, BBC Weather is predicting clouds and light wind with highs around 7C or 8C for most of the country. There aren’t any particularly cold spells forecast.
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