Temperatures are expected to dramatically drop. Here's the latest info on whether the snow is heading in your direction.
What's the latest weather forecast?
Cold air is set to sweep across the UK from Friday October 26, forcing revellers to wrap up warm over the Halloween weekend.
Snow is expected to fall with this plume of freezing air, although mainly restricted to mountainous areas, some southern parts of England could see some flurries.
North London, Cambridge and parts of Surrey and Kent may see a small scattering of snowflakes on Saturday evening, some weather charts predict.
But the Met Office is less confident about snow falling further south on low ground over the weekend.
It does expect temperatures to be "much colder and brighter from Friday with brisk winds and scattered heavy showers" with wintry showers on northern and Welsh hills.
What are the coldest UK winters on record?
Modern winters are nothing in comparison to those of the so-called “little ice-age” which lasted from 1350 until 1850.
These arctic winters resulted in the becoming frozen solid River Thames for months on end.
The worst UK winter on record was dubbed the "Great Frost", way back in 1683-84.
The Thames was covered in 11 inches of thick ice resulting in the famous Frost Fair — a festival held on the frozen river involving ice-skating, gambling and bear-baiting.
The winter of 1739-40 is one of the worst on record with a severe frost, which saw temperatures plummet to -9C, starting on Christmas Day and lasting until February 17th.
The only time the River Thames has frozen in modern times was in the so-called “Big Freeze” of 1963 which saw the country covered in a thick blanket of snow.
Sheffield was one of the worst hit with four feet of the white stuff.
Another modern "snowmaggeddon" occurred during December 1978 and the early months of 1979.
Against a backdrop of political instability in the UK, the winter was the worst since 1963.
A bitterly cold wind smashed the country at the end of November 1978 bringing blizzards and snow showers.
The worst winter of the new century was in December 2010 which broke national records and covered Britain in ice and snow.
Once again dubbed the “Big Freeze”, the average temperature for the month, which was -1C, was the coldest for 100 years, the Met Office confirmed.
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