"Bonos Ego" wrote :

I came across this old article by Philip Eden on a snow event to hit
the Channel Island in early November 1980
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/repor...rd-in-1980.htm

Having looked at the charts for 04/11/1980 - 07/11/1980, they are
similar to those forecast for the Channel Islands for 14th-16th
November

04/11/1980
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive...0119801104.gif
05/11/1980
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive...0119801105.gif
06/11/1980
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive...0119801106.gif
07/11/1980
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive...0119801107.gif


14/11/2007 http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1261.png
15/11/2007 http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1501.png
16/11/2007 http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1741.png

You really do need the actual wind to be E-ly or ESE-ly at
Jersey to get the unadulterated cold air off the French mainland.
Even an ENE-ly off the Cotentin peninsula will have originated
over the eastern Channel. There's only a 20km sea-crossing
between the French coast and Jersey, and at extreme low
spring tides most of that is exposed. (Jersey was actually
separated from the French mainland as recently as the 7th
century AD ... no' a lo' of people know that).

Philip