ANYONE planning to bet on a white Christmas in Oxford this year is likely to be disappointed by the outcome.
Reports from the Met Office show that snowfall in the Midlands and South East is highly unlikely tomorrow.
Met Office communications officer Dan Williams said: “Snowfall on December 25 is highly unlikely for the whole of England.
“The most likely place to receive snowfall will be areas of high altitude in Scotland.”
Although the last recorded “white Christmas” across Britain was in 2010, Oxford has not experienced snowfall on Christmas Day since 1970, according to the Met Office.
The most recent picture in the Oxford Mail of a white Christmas dates back to 1968.
Dressed in Wellington boots and wrapped up in woollies, children lob snowballs at each other in a Marston street.
The closest that Oxford has come to a white Christmas in the new millenium was in 2004, when sleet was recorded at Wallingford.
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