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Waking up on Christmas morning to a blanket of is what many of us dream of. But that is more likely to be seen in one of the many festive films rather than in our own lives.

A widespread White for most of the country is very rare and has only happened four times since 1960: 1981, 1995, 2009, and 2010. The most recent in 2010 was the best ever recorded - an extremely high 83 per cent of Met Office stations recorded snow lying on the ground, with 19 per cent seeing snow or sleet falling.

But the whole of the UK doesn't need to see snow for it to be an official White Christmas. In fact, the weather agency will declare a White Christmas if one snowflake is spotted by an official observer or recorded at one of its automated weather stations.

Going by this threshold, the UK has ha

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