Mild and dry conditions forecast for Christmas Day

People crossed overmuch of the UK should beryllium harmless to permission their wintertime layers and umbrellas astatine location connected Christmas Day, arsenic a tally of unseasonably mild upwind continues.

Highs of betwixt 11C and 13C are forecast, little than the warmest Christmas connected grounds backmost successful 1920 erstwhile it was 15.6C successful Devon.

A broad of unreality volition greet aboriginal risers connected Christmas morning, with the menace of rainfall isolated to the occidental and bluish isles of the UK, and astir the Highlands' Great Glen.

Christmas Eve volition beryllium the warmest time of this year's festive week with temperatures expected to highest astatine 15C successful northbound eastbound Wales.

On 25 December, Scotland and Northern Ireland tin expect spells of rainfall but the remainder of the UK is predicted to enactment dry.

BBC Weather's Louise Lear said Boxing Day volition "almost beryllium a lawsuit of spot the difference".

The archetypal signs of a alteration volition get precocious connected Friday, Lear said, arsenic north-westerly winds present colder aerial crossed Scotland.

• The warmest Christmas Day was successful Killerton, Devon successful 1920, which got to a balmy 15.6C
• The wettest was successful 2015 erstwhile 165.4mm of rainfall fell successful Capel Curig, Gwynedd
• The strongest Christmas wind was recorded successful Sella Ness successful Shetland successful 2011 with gusts up to 101mph (162km/h)
• And the coldest Christmas was recorded successful Gainford, Durham, which shivered done -18.2C temperatures successful 1878