A Christmas Day washout is in store for many with rain and wind to lash the UK. Some parts of the country will be exposed to “persistent rain” as families tuck into their Christmas dinner on Sunday afternoon, before possible thunderstorms and hail on Boxing Day.
However, those in the Scottish Highlands can expect a white Christmas, with as much as 10cm (four inches) of snow expected to fall. A Met Office yellow warning is in place for most of the Scottish Highlands, as well as some lowland areas, from 9pm on Christmas Day to 6pm on Boxing Day.
Met Office meteorologist Rachel Ayers told the PA news agency: “Christmas Day will be a windy and generally mild day for many with a mixture of sunny spells and showers. Showers will be mostly focused in the west where it is possible bands of showers will form some of which will move moving across southern and southeastern England later on bringing some more persistent rain.
