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Xmas snow rooftop3/17/2023 ![]() 2008 but that wasn’t as magical as snow on Christmas Eve in Houston, though I do remember driving home on Texas-288 and seeing bored commuters making snow angels in the median, their cars parked just feet away. It would snow again less than four years later in early Dec. We were finally getting to use all of our snow gear we normally have to fly to Colorado to put to good use. We get it, you folks from places in the country where snow is as normal as a 99-degree midnight is here in July will scoff at our snow worship but it hadn’t snowed in Houston on the holiday in recorded weather history. Mattress Mack wins record $75 million on Astros World Series bets.HISD, Aldine ISD cancel school for Astros World Series parade.How Michael Brantley helped save the Astros’ season in the World Series.Mattress Mack makes huge Astros bet, doubles Gallery Furniture promotion.Houston Astros World Series parade route, start time, road closures.Mattress Mack throws out first pitch before Game 6 of World Series.When is the Houston Astros' World Series parade?.Ladbrokes' William Lush said those punters may be disappointed - even if they win - if they have grand plans of Christmas Day snowball fights and snowmen. "It's designed as a bit of fun, we hope it allows lots of people to have a fiver on it and about 95% back it to snow purely because everyone wants it to snow." "Four years ago it snowed a few hundred yards away from the office and we still paid out," said William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams. The leading bookmakers say they are happy with this less-than-stringent interpretation. "It doesn't necessarily have to lie, all it has to do is fall. "We would probably still call it if there was snow down the road but nothing could be detected within the actual square," Mr Hill said. In Aberdeen it is the airport, in Glasgow it is the office of the Daily Record newspaper while the Met Office again performs the duties in Cardiff.īut punters who may be growing nervous about the possibility that snow could cover a city but somehow miss the vital measuring area can take heart - the Met sometimes bends the rules. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scotland is almost certain to see snow for ChristmasĮach city has its own designated areas where snow must fall for the bookies to pay. With wintry weather coming in, snow could not be ruled out anywhere by Christmas day, forecasters said.Ĭhristmas day snow showers were expected in north western Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of England and Wales.īookmakers have been slashing their white Christmas odds all week, with snow in Glasgow and Aberdeen odds-on, and odds for London and Cardiff constantly shorterning too. Scotland, Northern Ireland and northwest England were likely to see snow in the run-up to Christmas, the Met Office said on Wednesday. "There's a chance any showers here could miss us completely but for this little square I'd say there's a 30 per cent chance it'll see a shower on the day." "All throughout Christmas Day, every hour on the hour, one of my forecasters has to wander up and make sure it hasn't snowed yet," said Alex Hill, the head of the London Met Office. With that pronouncement determining if bookmakers will pay out on an estimated £1m on Saturday's weather, many will be closely watching the outcome.īut for the Met Office staff responsible for making the crucial call, it will be just another day at the office. ![]()
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