Will it be a white Christmas 2015?

Will it snow in the UK on Christmas Day? It's a million dollar question and according to weather forecasters, a white Christmas in 2015 is looking unlikely for most of people in Britain.

With temperatures expected to be mild throughout December, there is very little chance of snow for Christmas Day and a windy spell could be on the cards. While it is still early for an accurate forecast, meteorologists are looking at the jet stream and believe that Britain won't experience traditional wintry weather this year.

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Leon Brown at The Weather Channel tells AOL Travel: "We're currently expecting a strong jet stream from the Atlantic for the rest of November to December resulting in often windy and wet weather with above normal precipitation over the North and West, and temperatures above normal over the South and nearer normal in the Northwest.

"In this type of westerly pattern from the Atlantic, any cold snaps tend to be short and any snow tends to be over the higher mountains in the North of the UK for brief periods when winds veer to the northwest.

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"So, for Christmas 2015 the odds suggest a windy and mild spell of weather, unless we are between weather systems on the 25th. If there is any snow around it will most likely be over the highest parts of Scotland with a very low chance of any snow in the South or even at lower levels in the UK."

Meanwhile, Richard Chapman at The Weather Network tells us: "Whilst it is still too early to go into the detail for Christmas itself there are now signs that the jet stream will take a more southerly path during December. This set up could allow high pressure to build to the north of the UK, with wet and windy weather sweeping across the southern areas, as weather systems barrel in from the Atlantic.

"In this situation temperatures would be on the mild side and the likelihood of any wintry weather would be very restricted."

The last official white Christmas was in 2010, when snow fell across Northern Ireland, Scotland, parts of Wales, the Midlands, the Northeast and far Southwest England.

For the Met Office, it is too early for a Christmas forecast, but it says an accurate forecast is likely up to five days before Christmas Day.

"In terms of the statistical likelihood of snow based on climatology, we know that a snowflake has fallen on Christmas Day 38 times in the last 52 years, therefore we can probably expect more than half of all Christmases to be a 'white Christmas' in this sense," it says.

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