In message , Buzz
writes

As I recall, it was far more often a case of looking out of the window and
wondering 'where is that snow they forecast?'

Did you experience December 1981

Yes, I was 16 then.

, I lived in Featherstone then and we bore
the brunt, no school for a week after that one! I remember walking out in
the back garden snow drifts upto to my neck in snow, I was 13 at the time an
probably about 5'3"

The level snow was about 15-18 inches deep - the most I've ever seen in
Cheltenham.

The drifts were deeper, obviously.

Then there was January 1982, when the temperature fell to -20C here!
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)