On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:53:53 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:

... at the moment, I'm looking for fairly cloudy conditions next
couple of days - sporadic snow, but not too dramatic, *except* perhaps
tomorrow late morning to late afternoon as the upper trough axis comes
west, followed then by a marked recovery in contour heights. Whatever
falls though, even if only light, will settle readily and of course
will mask some sneaky stretches of hard/clear ice that have formed due
to people walking over the snow!

Interesting. The media seems to be building us up for something -
longer expanded local TV forecasts & currently Fiona Bruce's' tone' is
as dramatic as possible

R