I feel really envious of all this extreme weather all around the UK, because
here on the Fylde coast near Blackpool we've had nothing! On the Sunday
night just over a week ago we had a VERY light dusting of snow, but not
enough to cover the ground, and it vanished within a few hours, and since
then nothing! Last Friday afternoon I was hearing reports of severe weather
in other parts of the UK, but here it was unbroken wall-to-wall sunshine. If
I recall correctly, we've only had seriously disruptive snow twice in the
last 30 years in this area, in 1981 and again in the 1990s.