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I take it the snow aficionados amongst you weren't left disappointed after yesterday's events? Of course, whilst the winter wonderland scenes offer an excitingÌý(and rather rare) pleasure for many, they also - not least many elderly and vulnerable folk, plus those trying to run businesses or simply get to and from work.

Snow 'fun' or 'hell' is of course a subjective thing, butÌýmost peopleÌýprobably wouldn't disputeÌýthat itÌýpaints scenesÌýof sheer beauty across our landscape.

It's alsoÌýa rather appealing vistaÌýfrom high above, too.

Take a peek...

This image (courtesy and UK Met Office)Ìý- taken at 1pm today - graphically shows most of the British Isles almost gleaming white from recent snowfall, with a few darker exceptions visible towards southern realms of Dorset and Devon, as well as southwest Ireland, where any lying snow hasÌýproven somewhat scarce lately.

The urban area of Bristol and surrounding districts shows clearly in this photo as a darker tint (as indeed do some cities in the Midlands and northwest) beneath gin-clear skies with very little cloud.

The snowbound mountains of Wales and Cumbria - alongside heavy falls coating the Pennines - are marked-out as if seen in an atlas. Amazing.

Centered across East Anglia, a spiral-like vortex of thicker cloud is very evident. It'sÌýa snow-bearing feature spinningÌýgraduallyÌýsouthwards, delivering snow showers across Essex and Suffolk, with further lines of showers feeding off the North Sea into parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire andÌýNE coastal districts. Later today, the same vortex will cross south over the Thames Estuary, bringing a spell of mostly light snow into London, Kent and some other SE counties.

Draped north-south in the Irish Sea just off Pembrokeshire and down into the extreme SW of England, a line of shower activity is marked by a band of towering Cumulus clouds. Some quite heavy showers at the southern extreme of thisÌýare affecting the Scilly Isles and hovering just off the tip of Lands End. They're not expected to move much further eastwards.

Way out west, over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean to the south and west of Ireland, a conspicuous honeycomb-like pattern of cloud is very evident. It's a classic example of . In the most basic sense, air is rising around the periphery of each 'cell' to create and Ìýclouds whilst at the same time, sinking airÌýin the centre is creating a 'dark hole' representing clear skies.

It's only since the advent of that we've been able to fully appreciate such intricate, broadscale organisation of clouds - not least because individual cells can be anywhere from 10 to 120 miles across, making their true structure hard even to spot from an aircraft.