Brr..its cold in here.
Despite the Baltic temperatures bookies have slashed the odds on a white Christmas in cities around the country.
Odds for snowfall on December 25 are low at 5/2 in Belfast and Dublin, while in Galway they’re somewhat higher at 6/1/
Met Eireann won’t comment until closer to the time but our waters say it’s going to be a cold one. We currently have the coldest Atlantic temperatures since records began 80 years ago.
The winter chill is due to a cold 1,500-mile wide swathe of the North Atlantic.
Experts blamed the record cold ocean temperatures on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, also feared to be slowing the Gulf Stream, which pushes warm currents towards Ireland.
So we advise you wrap up, fill up the hot water bottles and place a few pennies on snowfall.
