I recall being excited by forecasts running up to Christmas 1993 suggesting it could be a white Christmas for the first time in a number of years.

On the evening a 20th of December 1993, a small low tracked across the Midlands and it snowed on its northern flank. I remember watching the snow falling and we had a covering whcih was still present the next morning.

Forecast by Rob McElwee 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBdl49TJjE

21st December 1993: Rob McElwee mentions the last white Christmases for these stations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVK5vcU-SgQ

22nd December 1993: Suzanne Charlton mentions the increased chances of a white Christmas for a number of years for some parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2XRWUQf6g

23rd December: Peter Cockcroft, I remember the showers turning sleety as the day progressed. Wet snow was falling in the evening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCQa0vZg50Q

Christmas Eve: a front coming into the west complicated things that evening. I remember seeing a few flakes of snow falling that morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AWD-KKuW0

Christmas Day: woke up and looked out of the window to see wet snow was falling! Sadly it didn't stick but it was the first time I saw snow falling on Christmas Day

Two Penny Tranter Christmas Day forecasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEdSTebp6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0BJaJSQJEo

BBC news report on the white Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZAkZF9t6I

Hard to believe that was a quarter of a century ago now. 

I really don't remember this at all.

Colder air dug in during the early hours of the 24th. There was a light snow cover (2cm) over the high ground where I worked at Whitfield near Dover. It had cleared by 11am. 

No snow in Surrey in 1993. Although we did get a flurry of snow on Boxing Day. I'm in my early 40s and I've spent every Xmas in the South East. I am yet to see snow fall on Xmas Day.

1970 was the last proper White Christmas down here, so you could be pushing 50 and not have seen one! (There have been one or two technical White Christmases since then, including here on Sheppey, but a flurry of snow that lasts for 30 seconds and doesn't settle or some sleet won't exactly get the pulse racing!)

1993 was crushingly disappointing IMBY. The forecast was for snow showers blowing in from the sea and I patiently waited all day, only for it to stay sunny. As sunset approached, a large cumulonimbus started to drift across and I became quite giddy with excitement. It got darker and darker and then.... whoosh, a downpour of rain with not a hint of sleetiness, let alone snow.

It does seem that for whatever reason getting noticeable snow on Christmas Day is almost impossible here. There was a spate in the 90s of snow in the immediate following days, but even then nothing on the day itself.

It's been similar my way. I think the last decent White Xmas in the London area was 1970. Too young to remember 1976. I think 1996, 1999 and 2001 were reported to have had a bit of sleet or a few flakes, but I didn't see them. I'm guessing there was snow lying in 1981, but I don't remember. 2010 was the closest I've got to a White Christmas, there were a few patches of snow on the ground from the week before. 

Im 56 and have never seen snow on xmas day. Imo if the uk wants a few white xmases it needs to be moved to Jan 25th

Excellent White Christmas with snow lying for about a week here. I think it was Christmas Eve I took this so 25 years ago today:

The 90s winters weren't great but compared with what we have had to endure in this decade they were fantastic.

2000-10 has to have been about the best period for festive weather with only 2002 and 2008 delivering mild dross. Since 2011 it's flipped completely and we're at the other end of the spectrum.