With Christmas day now just around the corner, many people are asking whether there is any chance at all that we will see a white Christmas this year.
It is set to become colder on Christmas eve as rain clears away to the south-east, but although colder, for most of us it will be dry and bright on Christmas day, perhaps with a few scattered showers, and very little chance of snow. As temperatures drop, many of us will wake up to a frost on Christmas day.
There is however a chance of some wintry showers in the north on Christmas eve, and a scattering of snow on higher ground in Scotland.
For a white Christmas to be declared, a single flake of snow must be recorded between midnight on the 24th and midnight on the 25th. Snow that falls before midnight on the 24th, but still on the ground, does not count.