Weatherwatch: will the UK have a white Christmas?

Half of Christmases are white by Met Office standards, but widespread snow on the ground is rareWill we have a white Christmas? Thanks to Charles Dickens writing about it and Bing Crosby singing about it, snowy scenes have become synonymous with Christmas, but in the UK at least the chances of waking up to a thick blanket of snow are very slim.The Met Office defines a white Christmas to be at least one snowflake observed falling in the 24 hours of Christmas Day, somewhere in the UK. On average, just over half of all Christmas Days in the UK turn out to be a "white Christmas", but a single flake in Edinburgh probably isn't what most of us have in mind. Continue reading...