The Fantasy Grounds community support has really been amazing in extending the 3.5/Pathfinder rule sets. I invested in the D20Pro kickstarter, and am following developments there.
I had done a little exploring of MapTools some time ago. I'm already invested in Fantasy Grounds, D20Pro, and Roll20. I had run across a previous version of the comparison page, before Roll20 was added, some time ago, and saw it had refreshed a few months ago. Includes Fullscreen feature and extra-fine-grain zoom controls to assist alignment in projector-based setups." "Battlegrounds was largely designed with face-to-face use in mind. Initial reaction was "meh, another VTT." until I read the following: In more recent years, snow has become a recognisable symbol of Christmas, often seen as part of cards, wrapping paper, festive artwork and tree decorations.Thanks! I'd never heard of Battle Grounds.
The severe weather later led to the idea of 'frost fairs', where shops, ice rinks and pubs would open on the ice. During this period, it was common for the River Thames to freeze and in 1536, King Henry VIII travelled from London to Greenwich on a sleigh across it. This era is now known as the Little Ice Age. Britain also experienced colder winters between 16, with temperatures often dropping to -13 C. It is thought that Christmas first became associated with snow during the Victorian period, after Dickens featured it in his books. Perthshire, Scotland had 47cm of snow on December 25, 1981, the deepest figure ever recorded, while Gainford, Durham, had the coldest Christmas Day in 1878 at -18.3 C.Ĭapel Curig, Wales, experienced the wettest Christmas Day in 2015, with 165mm of rain and Sella Ness, Shetland Islands, faced the strongest winds at 101mph in 2011.
Technically, the last white Christmas was on Christmas Day in 2015, with 11 per cent of weather stations recording snowfall, though no station reported any of snow settling on the ground. A whopping 83 per cent of stations recorded snow on the ground, the highest amount ever reported. The last widespread white Christmas in the UK was back in 2010. Previously, the Met Office building in London was the location used to determine whether the UK had a white Christmas, but as the number of people betting on it has increased so has the locations used (as the odds show). The latest odds from William Hill are as follows:Ĩ/1 Snow in Cardiff on Christmas day History of Christmas Day snow and weather forecasts Latest white Christmas odds for the UK in 2021īookmakers have started offering odds on snowfall in a number of cities across the UK. The Met Office defines the term as at least one snowflake falling on one of its observing stations during the 24 hours of December 25.Īccording to the Met Office, there have only been four occasions in the UK in the last 51 years where more than 40 per cent of stations in the UK reported snow on the ground at 9am. Snow doesn't need to settle on the ground to be a white Christmas. Could we see a white Christmas in 2021? From the science behind winter weather to the bookmaker odds, here is everything you need to know about snow during the festive season. We've had to invent more modern Christmas traditions.īut they do still happen in the UK on occasion. White Christmases were fairly frequent in the 1800s but the warmer climate these days means the chance of widespread snow on December 25 is usually pretty slim. Many Christmas tales feature picturesque snow-covered towns and villages, log fires and frost-rimed trees, imagery that goes back to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and mid-Victorian Christmas cards.