Has it been a white Christmas in the UK this year and when was the last one?
ARE you dreaming of a white Christmas? Kids and adults alike get excited by the prospect of waking up to a flurry of snow on December 25.
And for the first time in quite a few years 2017 was officialy a white Christmas.
When was the UK's last white Christmas?
At least one snowflake has to fall somewhere in the UK on December 25 for it to be classed as a white Christmas.
Snow which has fallen earlier in December and is still on the ground may look pretty - but it won't count with the bookies.
Our last white Christmas was in 2010, when snow or sleet fell at 19 per cent of stations, according to the.
Latest forecasts suggests that heavy snowfall could fall in Scotland overnight with some potentially dropping before midnight.
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What were the odds of snow falling on Christmas Day?
At least one snowflake has fallen on Christmas Day 38 times in the last 54 years.
This means, statistically, we can expect to see a white Christmas at least once every two years.
But the white Christmas of our imaginations, where there are layers of snow covering the ground, is much more rare.
This has only happened four times in the last 51 years.
The Met Office say it's difficult to accurately predict snow until five days beforehand.
But some bookies, including , released their odds up until Christmas Eve.
SunBets odds on a white Christmas
Glasgow (2/1)
Manchester (5/2)
London (3/1)
Belfast (9/2)
Cardiff (5/1)
- All odds correct at the time of publishing
Above are the final odds with SunBets, while offered odds of 2/1 for Aberdeen, 5/2 for Edinburgh and Glasgow, 3/1 for Newcastle, 7/2 for Leeds-Bradford, 4/1 for Manchester and Belfast, and 5/1 for Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff, and London Heathrow.
And the weather boffins Met Check released a - so you can check the probability in your town.
The final odds were a prediction of a 0 per cent chance of snow in Cardiff, Newcastle and Birmingham, 25 per cent chance in London and Glasgow and 75 per cent chance in Aberdeen.
But at 10:20pm on December 25 - the Met Office tweeted: "HOT OF THE PRESS - Spadeadam (in Cumbria) has recently reported light snow. Parts of southern Scotland are also seeing rain turn to snow.
"This has officially made it a white Christmas for some (just in the nick of time!)"
