Bookies in the UK have slashed their odds of a white Christmas from 5/1 to 2/1 after weather experts forecast 36 days of snow or ice and freezing cold temperatures over the next few months.
The Atlantic has been at its coldest for 80 years and Britiain is preparing for a big freeze because of it. But local bookie Chris Benest from CB Sports Ltd is hedging his bets for better weather here.
He said: “At this time of year I would go 12-1 and that’s for snow falling at the Met Office at the Airport between midnight on Christmas Eve and midnight on Christmas Day and that’s with a fair bit of confidence that the money will be staying in the till.
“We are a tiny dot on the map and snow is not the norm over here. I’m not going to get the winter woolies out at this moment in time, I’ve just done away with the shorts!”
The Island last had a bit of snow falling over Christmas back in 2004 but the Met said it was more of a sleet shower and before that the last white Christmas in Jersey was back in 1970.
