The UK faces a 'multi-hazard' weather event with a red warning for Storm Goretti bringing gusts over 100mph and heavy snow leading to avalanche alerts

KLM warned that it was running out of de-icing fluid after severe wintry weather has grounded planes in the Netherlands. The Dutch airline’s de-icing trucks were in use round the clock at Schiphol airport earlier this week, burning through 85,000 litres of the mixture a day.

Most of the UK is covered by weather warnings, leading to the risk of travel disruption, as the RAC warns that it expects Monday to be the worst day of the year for vehicle breakdowns.

Late weather maps illustrate the likelihood for some people hoping - nor not - to wake up to a white blanket of festive snow in parts of Britain by tomorrow morning