In article ,
Anne Burgess writes:
I am especially interested to note that, on cursory examnation, snow
coverage and depth seems to have been both greater and earlier in southern
and eastern England than in places further north.

As was generally the case in 1962-3, I think. When we get a
predominantly "easterly" winter, it's not surprising that that should be
the case.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)