{"id":122139,"date":"2023-12-13T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=122139"},"modified":"2023-12-13T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:09:05","slug":"expert-names-exact-date-snow-chaos-will-blanket-britain-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/expert-names-exact-date-snow-chaos-will-blanket-britain-over-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert names exact date snow chaos will blanket Britain over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UK is days away from entering a “battleground” which will determine whether parts of the country will get snow on Christmas Day. That’s according to a meteorologist who says a mild and wet period will freeze over next week, setting a new trend just before the big day.<\/p>\n

Current bookie odds from William Hill suggest people living in Glasgow in Scotland will most likely wake up to a layering of snow – giving odds of 2\/1. Scottish counterpart Edinburgh follows a close second with odds of 9\/4.<\/p>\n

In England chances slip a little more, with those living in the vicinity of Newcastle seeing 3\/1 odds of a white Christmas, with Leeds hot on the heels at 7\/2. Birmingham falls at 7\/1, with Bristol and London at 8\/1.<\/p>\n

While the bookmakers are hedging their bets, Jim Dale, a senior meteorologist from British Weather Services says urban areas are not guaranteed a covering in time for December 25 – and that the current picture remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Acknowledging a cold period creeping across northern England and Scotland from December 21, he told Express.co.uk: “It is turning colder from around December 21 but it is a battle between the mild and polar air.<\/p>\n

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“Scotland and parts of the north are currently in the frame, however it remains a wait and see. It could well be an interesting one.”<\/p>\n

The Met Office has refused to give a statement on any snow predictions, but its long-range forecast from December 17 to Boxing Day alludes to a “probable” and “short-lived” colder interlude next week.<\/p>\n

It says in full: “For most locations more settled weather continues into Sunday with high pressure close to the southwest of the UK. Though northern and western Scotland likely remaining in a more wet and windy, but exceptionally mild regime.<\/p>\n

“Settled conditions in the south with well above average temperatures here too, but cloudy at times with some patchy light rain, mainly near western coasts and over hills.<\/p>\n

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