This timelapse video shows clouds forming and emptying snow across London.
Taken from a camera on top of the Novotel hotel in Canary Wharf, the footage captured the "beast from the east" as it hit the capital.
The freezing temperatures and snow have prompted the Met Office to issue weather warnings across much of the country.
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