Christmas freeze: Met Office gives verdict on chances of snow on December 25
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Brits hoping to wake up to flurries of snow and a picturesque Christmas scene have been dealt a blow with a "remarkably mild" day in store. Shoppers grabbing last minute gifts today have seen temperatures warmer than normal for the time of year and it is going to continue for Christmas Day, states the Met Office.
Conditions today are “grey and gloomy” and it is set to be the warmest day of the week, with highs of up to 15C in north east Wales, according to the Met Office. This is slightly lower than the warmest Christmas Eve on record – when a high of 15.6C was measured at Gordon Castle in Banff and in Craibstone, Aberdeenshire, in 1931.
The Midlands, north east England and north east Scotland may see some “brighter spells”, but it will be largely cloudy for most of the country, the weather service added. In an online forecast, Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: “It’s just going to stay cloudy, a lot of low cloud covering the hills of the west, misty around the coast, drizzle here and there, particularly for north west England, and more especially western Scotland – where the rain will be persistent through the rest of the day with a strengthening south westerly wind.
“But with all of this cloud coming from the Atlantic, it is going to be a remarkably mild Christmas Eve.” Temperatures on Christmas Day are forecast to be a little cooler than Tuesday, with highs of 13C in Plymouth and strong winds of up to 50mph forecast in the north and north west of Scotland.
