Scott W wrote in
:

I remember that in 1987 the Isle of Sheppey was very badly hit by the
snow and cut off for a day or so - think the Daily Mail headline was
'Siberia, No it's the Garden of England" - perhaps this system is
similar?

There was some incredible banded snowfall there (for the interested reader,
see Bill Pike's work in Met Mag, if I recall correctly), but these bands
are parallel to the flow - the ones in 1987 IIRC were orthogonal to the
flow, aligned along the coastline - which probably explains the Sheppey
pasting then.

I recall a figure showing Walton on the Naze's weather reports showing
continuous heavy snow (4 stars!) for about 6 consecutive hours. I recall
waking up to a very thick blanket of snow one morning and, being 4 ft 9 at
the time, trying to walk to school with the snow coming in well over the
top of my wellies...

Richard