Here's Why It's So Hard To Predict Snow In The UK

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I’ve seen lots of snow predictions in the past month or so, though personally, I’ve yet to see a single flake.

Of course, that’s partly because I’m in the warmer South . In fact, we’re currently experiencing unusually balmy temperatures.

But no matter where we are in the UK, predicting snow here is uniquely challenging.

Working out whether we’ll have a white Christmas or a snow-sprinkled November is hard, because of the forces that bring in both cold air and percipitation (things like rain).

In fact, Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern explained : “What meteorologists actually do is rather than cherry-pick one computer model run for more than two weeks’ time, the computer models are run lots and lots of times and then we can pick out areas where they