THOSE dreaming of a white Christmas this year could be in luck if these odds are anything to go by.
According to bookies and weather experts, there is a chance that we could be waking up to snowflakes on December 25 this year.
The Met Office defines a white Christmas as one snowflake being falling in the 24 hours of Christmas day somewhere in the UK.
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Our last white Christmas was 2010, when there was snow on the ground at 83 per cent of its monitoring stations, which is the highest number ever recorded.
Ladbrokes are offering odds of 7/4 for Aberdeen, 2/1 for Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Meanwhile it is 5/2 for Newcastle, 7/2 for Belfast, and 5/1for Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds/Bradford and London Heathrow.
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