well in the name of balance, just to say that not all places had
anything like what was described.

Here in North Devon, Christmas Day had small hail, sleet showers with
one shower of snow pellets that filled up the house gutters.
It seemed to turn less cold on boxing day with rain showers and only a
trace of small hail in them. Ground wet, and certainly not a white
christmas
Ordinary two day cold snap.

Now we have zonality to look forward to