A swimmer in the sea in Dawlish Warren, south Devon on Christmas Eve (Yui Mok/PA)
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Christmas Day is set to be the hottest in practically a years, with forecasters anticipating highs of 14C.
Dreams of a White Christmas have actually been shattered for the majority of the UK, with “extremely moderate” temperature levels continuing after the nation saw its hottest December 24 for more than 20 years.
Some locations in northern Scotland are most likely to see some snow, technically making it a White Christmas, which is specified by the Met Office as a single snowflake falling on December 25.
Forecasted highs of 13 to 14C in London and the south-east of England would make it the mildest Christmas Day given that 2016, when temperature levels reached 15.1 C.
The typical optimum temperature level for December is 7C.
Forecaster Dan Stroud stated: “It’s not likely to be a record-breaker in terms of heat however still extremely moderate.
“The factor for that is we’re drawing our weather condition from the mid-Atlantic which is usually a hot instructions for us.”
Monday will be “moist and unpleasant” for much of England and Wales, while northern locations, Scotland and Northern Ireland are anticipated to have a mix of warm spells and showers.
It follows temperature levels in Heathrow, south-west London, and Cippenham, Berkshire, struck 15.3 C on Sunday, making it the hottest Christmas Eve because 1997.
Wind speeds of approximately 70mph were taped in Scotland, reaching 60mph in the north-east of England.
The hottest December 25 on record was 15.6 C in 1920, while the greatest Christmas Eve temperature levels of 15.5 C were embeded in Aberdeen and Banff in Scotland in 1931.