British weather has been subject to the tumult of climate change and, with warmer-than-average temperatures all year round, snowy winters have become rarer.
A “white Christmas”, which the Met Office broadly defines as one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of December 25, somewhere in the UK, may be on the cards. But a single drop of snow may not be enough to bring back this phenomenon, more common in the 18th and 19th centuries.
