Dreaming of a white Christmas? Weather forecasters say it’s unlikely

Forecasters are tracking the weather system a month after Storm Angus brought 80mph winds, heavy rain and flooding.

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, temperatures should be above average for much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, AccuWeather said.

Storm Barbara is expected to bring extremely windy and wet conditions, while there will be a risk of stormy conditions in coastal counties of Connacht and Ulster.

OVER 650 homes were left without power yesterday as storm Barbara batters Scotland amid warnings of 90mph gales and 10cm snowfall.

Until next October, every major storm will be named according to the list, which is ordered alphabetically.

The warning is valid from 9am on Friday Morning until 9am on Saturday morning with winds expected to moderate by Saturday morning. Our active weather pattern will slow down a great deal, with fewer storms, and more fair weather.

Amber warnings – meaning “be prepared” – are in place in for north-west Scotland from around midday Friday until around 6am on Christmas eve. In the USA, winter snow has increased across swaths of the country, including the West, the upper Midwest and into the Appalachians, but it has decreased in the Pacific Northwest and parts of the Northern Plains.

“We’ve seen Christmases in the past where we have seen snow”, said Dave Tucek, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Indianapolis office. You better watch out.

A storm poised to move across the Southwest on Thursday will emerge over the southern Plains with light rain and an icy mix by Friday. “We could see some strong winds and wet weather”.

‘The low-pressure system is going to bring some rain and showers to the southern half of the United Kingdom’.

Forecasters said Storm Barbara had the potential to disrupt travel over the Christmas period and urged people to make alternative plans.

“We have to reinforce all our road safety messages, which become of increased importance in bad weather when people are driving routes they don’t regularly travel”.

Dry weather is expected until Friday.

Huge waves battered the coastline of Britain during last months chaotic weather – there are fears of Christmas chaos with this next storm Streets were flooded and damage done to property and coastal pathways as the storm raged on Why are some United Kingdom storms given names?

It brought gales of 80 miles per hour on the South Coast and gusts of up to 97mph, leaving 2,000 homes without power and making conditions hazardous at sea.