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- Bookies make it 4/5 that we will see a White Christmas this year
- It's 2/1 that this October is the coldest on record with a chilly week ahead
- How does the Met Office define a White Christmas?
Bookies make it 4/5 that we will see a White Christmas this year
According to bookies it's increasingly likely that we will see a White Christmas this year, with odds being slashed from 2/1 to 4/5 that it snows on Christmas Day.
The betting odds give a 55% chance that we see a White Christmas with a cold October currently happening ahead of the Winter period.
Coral have slashed the odds from 2/1 to 4/5 that we see snow on Christmas Day this year.
The last widespread White Christmas we had in the UK was back in 2010 with snow or sleet at 83% of the recording stations.
It's 2/1 that this October is the coldest on record with a chilly week ahead
Bookmakers make it 2/1 that this October is the coldest that we see on record with a 33% chance of it happening according to the odds.
A chilly wave seems to be hitting the UK this week and the chances of snow falling seem to be getting more and more likely.
The coldest October recorded in the UK was back in 1948 with -11.7°c in Dalwhinnie (Highland) the current coldest October day.
| Cold Weather Betting | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Christmas Day 2022 to be a White Christmas | 4/5 | 55.6% |
| October 2022 to have snow fall | 6/4 | 40.0% |
| October 2022 to be coldest on record | 2/1 | 33.3% |
Will It Snow In The UK This Christmas (White Christmas Odds)
How does the Met Office define a White Christmas?
A White Christmas used to be defined as if snow fell at the Met Office in London, but this has since changed to a variety of stations across the UK.
'The definition that the Met Office uses to define a White Christmas is for one Snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25th December,' according to the Met Office themselves.
The last time we saw widespread recordings of snow on the ground in the UK on Christmas Day was way back in 2010, so 12 years on it seems like we're due a bit of snowfall on Christmas Day.
