BBC News website readers have sent images of themselves enjoying the snowy weather.

Aliesha and Jordan Booth making snowmen in their front garden in Milton Keynes.

Adrian Gordon: "This is scene that greeted me on Blackheath Common this morning. A peculiar sight!"

"Hi, my name is Harry and I am six months old. This is my first time in the snow."

"Hello from the Allen family in Bedford! Snowy Bedford, should I say?"

Daniel Wood from Old Windsor enjoyed the school run on a toboggan this morning. The toboggan last saw active service 38 years ago when his father was taken to school on it.

Jo, Emma, Zoe and Emma construct a giant snowball in Amersham.

Lydia, Juliette and Louise next to a snowman in the garden at Miskin, Pontyclun, south Wales.

Jon McClelland: "We made a snowman before school this morning."

Anna: "This is the snowman I made with my sister before she went to school this morning. He looks sad. I think he is cold."