But the Met Office insists that changing weather conditions make it difficult to predict if December 25 will see snow falling across Britain on Christmas day next Tuesday.
The latest betting odds suggest that many major cities in the UK are becoming less likely to have snow this year, except for Newcastle and London where the odds have shortened.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: "It's looking increasingly likely Londoners will see snow this Christmas as the odds continue to drop with the temperatures."
But Helen Roberts from the Met Office told The Sun Online: "It's a tricky one because there's an awful lot of uncertainty at the moment.
"However, I would say [the chances of a White Christmas are] fairly slim, particularly in the South.
ODDS ON A WHITE CHRISTMAS
"If we do see anything it would most likely be (as you would imagine) on hills in the North but even there it's not looking very likely moment.
"Obviously there's a lot of wet and windy weather around today and once that clears through we're into a showery scenario for the next couple of days and it remains fairly changeable right the way through the weekend as well.
"It does look at the moment like [it's] perhaps becoming a little bit quieter into the start of next week on Monday and Tuesday, not particularly cold, and in fact there'll probably be temperatures above average in the South.
"There could be some rain – that would most likely be in the North – but again, it's a little bit too early at the moment to put too much more detail on it than that."
Helen said forecasting a White Christmas is proving particularly challenging this year because of what's currently happening with the weather.
She explained: "It does very much depend on the weather scenario and this one is causing us some headaches at the moment unfortunately.
"I think the forecast will change over the next few days."
A White Christmas is judged by a single snowflake falling anywhere in the UK in the 24 hours of December 25.
In the last 54 years, snow has fallen in Britain on Christmas Day 38 times so slightly over half have officially been classed as a "White Christmas".
But there's only been widespread snow coverage across the UK on just four occasions in the same period, with the last coming in 2010.
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