Incredible pictures show UK’s last ‘proper’ White Christmas | UK | News
Christmas Day is approaching and families will gather together to see loved ones and enjoy a festive feast. Many will be hoping for some snow to really enhance that cozy Christmas atmosphere.
Britain often sees a “white Christmas”, which is classified by the Met Office as having at least a single snowflake “observed by an official Met Office observer or a Met Office automatic weather station to fall within the 24 hours of 25 December”.
There are hundreds of automatic weather monitoring stations across the country. According to the national weather service, the last white Christmas technically occurred in 2023; 11% of stations recorded snowfall, but none reported snow on the ground.
But the Met Office says the last widespread white Christmas seen in the country was nearly 15 years ago in December 2010.
Read on as we look back at the snow-covered festive period when Britain transforms into a winter wonderland ahead of Christmas.
A family walk in Wrington on Boxing Day 2010.
The UK saw heavy snowfall ahead of Christmas 2010, including in Wrington, North Somerset.
Elsewhere in the country, snow depth records were broken; Including Cae Poeth in Gwynedd saw 1.5 meters of snow on Christmas Day; this was the highest snowfall recorded in Wales at the time.
