According to the latest predictions from Met Office forecasters, snow is expected to fall in several locations within a few days.
Despite a lack of significant snowfall over the Christmas period, forecasts are now indicating substantial snow at the beginning of January.
The Met Office's forecast for 2nd to 11th January indicates that "cold northerly winds" are set to dominate across the entirety of the UK.
Met Office's snow forecast for January.
These conditions "will" result in snowfall along coastlines exposed to onshore winds and "areas just inland of these", according to the Met Office. It further states that southern and central areas inland will "remain mostly dry but cold."
The Met Office explains: "There are likely to be some more coherent bands of rain, sleet and snow working south, and these may bring a risk of more prolonged wintry precipitation affecting some inland areas. Towards the second half of this period, slightly milder conditions will attempt to move in from the west."
Additionally, some areas could see snowfall before December ends. The Met Office's forecast for Tuesday to Thursday suggests that conditions will become "colder later in the week with brisk northwesterly winds bringing increasingly wintry showers to the north".
BBC Weather's snow forecast for January
For the time being, BBC Weather's most recent predictions indicate any snowfall is likely to be confined to elevated areas. Nevertheless, these forecasts may alter as January draws nearer.
BBC Weather's outlook for January 5 to 11 notes: "Although no significant rise in temperatures is expected, values could approach or briefly exceed the January average as high pressure potentially slips farther south and some westerly winds develop.
"A drier spell is possible initially, but frontal systems may then begin to move in from the Atlantic, bringing another increase in precipitation.
"For most areas, this will fall as rain, although some snow is possible at higher elevations-most likely across the Highlands. Northern and western areas are expected to be wetter than the south and east. There is, however, some uncertainty in this expected pattern, with a chance that high pressure could build to the west."
