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Aberdeen is favourite for a White Christmas |
Every year across Britain punters flock to their local bookmakers to place their bet on it being a white Christmas where they live.
Usually however it’s the bookmakers who wake up on Christmas morning with a smile peering reluctantly through their curtains to see fields of green with not a snowflake in sight.
This Christmas could well be different however with many bookmakers fearing a major pay out due to the current cold snap throughout the UK.
And Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland is not surprisingly the most likely area in the U.K to have snow on December 25th.
Bookmakers are offering odds of 7/2 on it snowing in Aberdeen while Scotland’s biggest city Glasgow is second favourite at 4/1.
Should it snow throughout the country, which meteorologists say is highly likely, then individual bookmaking firms could be paying out as much as £1 million each.
The last time the UK was covered in snow on Christmas day was in 2004. Millions of pounds were won throughout the country with many bookmakers stating they would not offer odds on it happening again.
Most other areas throughout the UK from Birmingham to Cardiff and on to Belfast can be attained at 6/1 in most bookies.
Last week many betting firms including Ladbrokes cut the price of snow in London on Christmas day from 8/1 to 6/1.
"White Christmas is the favourite festive flutter and 2007 is no exception with hundreds of thousands already riding on a white Christmas," said William Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.
"The weather is becoming increasingly unpredictable and this year could be the year that punters clean up."
The bookies are also offering odds of 18/1 that temperatures this year will plunge below the lowest ever level of - 26.1°C recorded in Shropshire on January 10, 1982. |
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