I agree that timings and temperatures for thursday morning were bang on.
But what began as a well organised band of medium to heavy precipitation
fragmented and lost must of its potency as it crossed the country -
especially over wales. To quote Will Hand from one of his previous threads
on wednesday evening - "I think this frontal precip. band is going to break
up!" From my point of view here in Wrexham I think Will was spot on.

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On Feb 9, 12:46 pm, "David Gartrell"
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Hi Everyone,

Over the last few days all the forecasters have been banging on about a
'major snow event' wednesday night into thursday but nothing more after
that. The reality of the situation is that the wed/thurs snow turned out
to
be a big disappointment for a lot of snow-loving people. Now here we are
on
friday - a day described as a much quieter day just yesterday by the
BBC -
and what's it doing - it's snowing like bilio !

They were just about spot-on for me in Hertfordshire. I don't remember
them saying -9C for Tuesday night, but I got my dollop of snow.
According to a friend it stated at 04:20 Thursday morning, which was
right according to the last broadcast I watched at 10:30.


I do realise that snow can be notoriously difficult to forecast
accurately
but I'd be very interested to hear everyones thoughts about the last 2
days'
weather - especially the fact that todays snow was completely unforecast
just 24 hours ago - maybe the first front was just a decoy for today's
weather :-)


On Tuesday the BBC London area television warned of snow risk for
today.