Snow has been falling up across the country this week and with Storm Arwen having just left and Storm Barra now arriving, many people will be thinking one thing - will it snow on Christmas Day?
With Storm Barra officially here, bookmaker William Hill's odds on a White Christmas have been tightened once again and have sunk to their lowest collective level since the last widespread festive whiteout.
This happened in December 2010 and featured the coldest winter month since the Met Office records began in 1910.
As well as the record low temperatures, heavy snowfall brought with it power cuts, travel chaos and school closures, with the UK remaining under the Arctic air right up until Boxing Day.
It hasn't snowed on December 25 in the UK since 2015 however temperatures are set to plummet to freezing with heavy snow forecast for Scotland in the coming days. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for heavy snow and strong gales due to the second storm of the season, Storm Barra.
With thousands of homes across the affected regions only just having had their power reconnected, a band of rain is expected to turn to snow through Tuesday, moving northwards across central and northern England into Scotland.
Forecasters are suggesting it could see up to 2-5cm of snow deposited locally, but up to 10cm in the Southern Uplands and Highlands.
Heavy snow is expected across the central belt of Scotland, Strathclyde, Perthshire and the Highlands and it appears snow on the ground has been the catalyst for big interest in snowfall on December 25, with Glasgow now sitting at 3-1 with William Hill for a white Christmas - tied with Edinburgh.
The popular pastime of betting on a White Christmas was said to be instituted by William Hill and traditionally only required a single snowflake to fall on the Met Office operations centre in London.
Nowadays, with that building long since sold and the national weather service now based in Devon, all that is needed to declare a White Christmas is the observation of a single snowflake falling in the 24 hours of December 25, at one of 13 major UK airports.
William Hill spokesperson Rupert Adams said: "We continue to monitor this market very closely indeed, having seen a huge spike in interest in light of recent snow on the ground, and more on the way. It never ceases to amaze us how popular this particular festive flutter has become.
"With the arrival of this latest icy blast, the wider narrative looks as though it could well play out as is anticipated, meaning an increased likelihood of a festive sprinkling on December 25."
Full list of city airports and odds for a white Christmas
- Edinburgh (Airport) - 3-1
- Glasgow (Airport) - 3-1
- Newcastle (Airport) - 7-2
- Belfast (Airport) - 7-2
- Leeds (Airport) - 9-2
- Liverpool (Airport) - 5-1
- Manchester (Airport) - 5-1
- Dublin (Airport) - 11-2
- Birmingham (Airport) - 6-1
- Gatwick (Airport) - 6-1
- London (City Airport) - 6-1
- Bristol (Airport) - 7-1
- Cardiff (Airport) - 7-1
