Birmingham Christmas 2022 Met Office weather forecast for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day

As we look forward to Christmas in Birmingham, there is one question at the back of everyone’s mind - will it snow this year? Using the Met Office’s long term weather forecast, this is what we’ll be looking to find out.

The fabled “White Christmas” is something that almost everyone wishes for - but, unfortunately, it rarely happens in the UK. The last time Birmingham experienced a White Christmas was back in 2010.

For the Met Office to declare a White Christmas in a specific part of the UK, only a single snowflake needs to fall at one of its designated  observation sites across the country. As such, technically, the last White Christmas in the UK last year.

In 2021, 6% of weather stations in the UK reported snowfall. However, fewer than 1% of them actually recorded it settling on the ground.

The same percentage of weather stations recorded snow in 2020, with 4% of them registering that it had settled on the ground. However, in 2018 and 2019, there was no snowfall reported at  Christmas in the UK by the Met Office.

Birmingham long term Christmas weather forecast

Long-range weather forecasts are notorious for being subject to change which makes the task of ruling in or ruling out a white Christmas for Birmingham so far in advance difficult to predict with any significant degree of accuracy.

However, the Met Office does predict cold temperatures, alongside foggy and misty conditions and a high chance of overnight frost in their long term weather forecast for the UK.

The Met Office does not expect there to be much in the way of turbulent weather. Conditions over the Christmas period in Birmingham are expected to be “settled” with occasional downpours of rain.