The first flurries of snow have hit high ground on hills in northern England, Wales and Scotland.

The views may have been picturesque, but it made for hazardous driving conditions on the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Snow also fell as far south as Brighton and Devil’s Dyke in the South Downs of Sussex, as November closes with an icy blast.

Autumn weather
Snowy scenes at Snake Pass in Derbyshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
Autumn weather
A crashed car sits abandoned on the A628 in the Peak District (Danny Lawson/PA)
Autumn weather
Drivers were warned to take care on the roads (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Dog-walking at Snake Pass (Danny Lawson/PA)
Autumn weather Nov 21st 2018
It was a chilly job for one recovery vehicle crew (Danny Lawson/PA)
Autumn weather Nov 21st 2018
And directions were hard to come by (Danny Lawson/PA)
Rovaniemi without snow
But in Finland there was a surprising lack of snow in the north of the country which is home to Father Christmas … (Rovaniemi/PA)
Rovaniemi without snow
In Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, the traditional white Christmas that attracts tourists, was missing ((Rovaniemi/PA)