The Secret Of White Christmas

Technically, 2015 was likewise a white Christmas in the UK with 10 percent of weather stations recording snow falling - nevertheless none reported any snow lying on the floor."

Digging outside a vehicle, 1981

"Looking back, I feel that it had been a very fantastic time, and I also feel so very thankful that computers were not around then. We most likely would have been sitting with a fire at the hot, pressing buttons, and seeing the snow fall out, rather than being outside in the cold and appreciating outside it, as we did then."

As we mentioned recently, Dr Michelle Cain of Cambridge University's Centre for Climate Science stated that for snow to fall there must be moisture from the air and temperatures need to fall below zero. She explained: "Ordinarily, in December that there are just two times where snow falls on the floor, and in December that the odds of the 2 days occurring at Christmas are rather slender."

"My loved ones and the next-door neighbors would pile in their van to see favorite spots like Wandlebury and Royston Heath, to ride our sledges down the slopes. I can recall some folks riding metal bedsteads. There were also snowfalls out our homes, and we left slides at the street.

Trains ground to a stop, streets were blocked, and lots of drivers heading out found themselves trapped. Countless men were called to help dig out buses that were trapped.

Ninety years back this December, in 1927, snow began falling on Christmas Day, and it was not only the odd flake. It was a, with drifts up to high.

The latest White Christmas was actually in 2010. The Met Office says: "It was very uncommon, as not only was there snow on the floor at 83 percent of our weather channels - the maximum amount ever recorded - but snow or sleet also dropped at 19 percent of those.

Well, we have had one snowfall, last weekend -- so perhaps, just maybe, we will find a second one at Christmas? The definition of a White Christmas of the Met Office requires that one snowflake is seen decreasing in the united kingdom, someplace at the 24 hours of December 25.

Temperature plummeted so much that the River Cam froze, and individuals could wear their ice skates and race up and down along it. In reality, it was the coldest winter since 1740, with snow falling day after day and ongoing for weeks.

Have a mince dish: passengers in Shelford channel are offered a joyous snack in 2010 He had been a student at Arbury Junior School.

Snow in Bottisham, December 1981

Plumbing were suspended, and innumerable football games were cancelled. And there have been flooding, when it finally thawed, and regions like the Parker's Piece of Cambridge refroze to become ice rinks.

He explained: "I was astonished at the time when a petrol spillage on the park in the front of the school froze solid, and it seemed like a big sheet of smooth, colored glass. Everybody had a terrific time.

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Snowman contest on Midsummer Common, 1979 They are rare, something which scientists attribute to climate change, although A few centuries ago Christmases happened frequently.