We’re not sure quite how scientifically proven its inner-workings are, but the UK’s largest ski holiday provider Crystal Ski Holidays has boldly created a snow calculator called Remember That December? that reminisces over the snow filled Christmas Days across the past 25 years. However the calculator not only highlights the most memorable white Christmases past, it also attempts to calculate the likelihood of a white festive period this year.
Whether analysing 25 years’ worth of past snowfall and depth data from the Met Office can have any bearing at all on what conditions will be like THIS Christmas is a moot point and Crystal do say at the end, “the Met Office does not endorse the snow predictions for Christmas.” But still, it’s a national obsession and the Remember That December calculator is good fun.
“The will-it, won’t-it aspect of snow on Christmas Day is something that Brits talk about every year. Here at Crystal, snow is vitally important for our business so we wanted to create something fun that would celebrate this,” said Martin Nolan from Crystal who added, “The experts at the Met Office know that snow is notoriously one of the most difficult types of weather to forecast, but we hope that our fun snow calculator will help those wondering about a white Christmas.”
Using Met Office historical data, the Snow Calculator shows that it’s good news for Scotland, with many regions seeing a high chance of snow (55 percent). The East of England also has a good chance of a white Christmas with it 26 percent likely that they’ll see the white stuff. Although for people in Yorkshire & The Humber, East Midlands and North Wales there will be no winter wonderland as they all welcome only a 9 percent chance of snow.
The South suffers a similar fate with South Wales and the South West seeing a 12 and 14 percent likelihood of snow. Away from the Highlands it’s only the North East and the West Midlands with odds of snow nearing 20 percent.
“The snow calculator is a bit of fun, but as Christmas Day gets nearer you can find out if snow is actually forecast by visiting the Met Office website.” Said Rosalie Fairbairn, Partnership Communications Manager at the Met Office.
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