Mail Online - 12/16/12, Amanda Williams and Paul Bentley
- Odds of a white Christmas are cut to 4/1 in London and 2/1 in Edinburgh
- Hailstones the 'size of pound coins' have already fallen in Penzance, Cornwall
- Heavy December rain has already claimed victims, with one dead and others rescued by services
This week is set to be another wet and wild one. Winds and unusually high tides have caused damage in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
As shivering Christmas shoppers battled driving rain, icy winds and hailstones bigger than pound coins yesterday, their festive cheer was probably diminishing. They might have perked up, however, had they known the odds of it being a white Christmas have been slashed from 6/1 to 4/1 in London and from 5/2 to 2/1 in Edinburgh.
With such unsettled weather and temperatures falling as low as -12C (10F), it's not difficult to understand why.
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