Seen enough from the 12z's (UKMO and GFS up to edge of reality at 144) to say yes, it's going to be cold....probably very cold with the northerly winds, though not perhaps on the thermometer.
Certainly seems cold enough for snow nationwide if any features crop up. Currently, it does indeed look like a dry northerly (away from northern hills and the coasts), but as has been said, features can (and probably will in this unstable air flow), crop up anywhere, any time.
Five to seven days of cold weather with potential for snow will do me for now. I'm not going to work myself into a frenzy about when and where it *might* snow, but all I will say is, with the cold entrenched, it *COULD* snow just about anywhere - with little troughs, low pressures and other disturbances likely to crop up at very short notice.
Yes, this is unusually positive from me, and no, my account hasn't been hacked into, this is genuinely me...but all in all, quite positive now for a proper wintry spell with the threat of snow almost anywhere from Wednesday pm onwards.
Bring it on, and then let's have spring please! 
Originally Posted by: moomin75