in 237493 20100303 221223 Nick wrote:

I had a taste of the conditions at Fareham on the 9th (the Saturday)
as I had a 30 minute train connection there (on the way to visit the
extremely heavy snowfall in the Haslemere area). The snow was indeed
very much deeper at Fareham than here, and I wandered round some of
the residential streets in the station area truly in awe at what has
been the heaviest snow in coastal Hampshire I've ever seen. Shame it
didn't last a bit longer and we had to endure that awful February,
which will stick in my mind but for rather less good reasons...

For sheer depth of snow this year's was beaten on 6th April 2008.
We had over 20cm in 3 hours but it had all gone by late afternoon.
I'm just north of Waterlooville.