A climate forecaster has dashed hopes for a white Christmas this yr, regardless of temperatures being set to plummet earlier than the tip of the month.

James Madden from Exacta Climate took to Fb to share his insights forward of December 25. His prediction comes after maps from WXCharts indicated that temperatures would possibly plummet to as little as -10C in some areas because of the incoming chilly snap.

Nevertheless, Madden said the UK won’t expertise snowfall inside the subsequent few days. He stated we are able to anticipate “regular to even gentle” temperatures and “extra settled” climate on Christmas Day.

In his submit, Madden defined: “Sadly for snow, or luckily for extra settled climate lovers, this is able to then look to set the best way for some regular to even MILD temperatures and doubtlessly extra settled climate across the CHRISTMAS interval on the present essential third-party repeated projections of latest days.

However, Madden is assured snow will make an look earlier than the tip of December, predicting a “massive freeze” within the “last days” of the month and the beginning of 2025.

In one other submit, Madden said: “Our several-month-ahead subscribers winter report and up to date forecast indications for the ‘last days of December and early 2025’ are nonetheless extremely set for a widespread snowy interval on our present forecast indicators (round early subsequent week beginning 30 Dec, presumably barely earlier).”

In the meantime, Jim Dale, senior meteorologist and founding father of British Climate Providers, has issued a warning to New 12 months’s Eve party-goers to “preserve their fingers on the heartbeat” because of the impending menace of “extreme wind and snow” as 2024 attracts to a detailed. He stated: “It is an early warning that we might effectively be in for some hazardous climate to usher in 2025.”

The BBC‘s preliminary forecast as much as January 6 warns: “It appears doable that the somewhat settled situations might return to some extent in the course of the first week of the brand new yr, no less than within the south-western and western areas of the UK.

“In contrast, the remainder of the nation may even see wetter and windier situations. Temperatures might stay above common, following a brisk west to occasional north-westerly stream sample. There may be nonetheless a slight probability of colder spells making their approach by means of at occasions, particularly throughout Scotland the place wintry precipitation appears probably.”

The Met Workplace added: “Across the flip of the yr, it seems extra possible that colder, extra showery situations will probably make no less than some ingress into northern and maybe central areas, bringing a danger of some impacts from ice, sleet and snow.”