Just wondering whether the situation over the last week or so, with
persistent easterlies and Atlantic fronts trying to push in from the
west, getting blocked then stalling and retreating again, is in any way
similar to the situation which brought heavy snowfalls in the 1946/7
winter. It seems to me that frontal lows coming up against a cold
airmass but without a breakdown of the block is the recipe for the
heaviest snowfall events historically in the UK. Am I correct here?

Someone has already posted elsewhere another of my thoughts that if this
stubborn block we have had this month had formed at, say, the end of
December, whether the cold would approach that of the 1962/3 winter. If
we are getting reports of ice days at the end of March, heaven knows
what the temperatures would be like if the same block had formed two or
three months ago.

Pre-2008, I had wondered just what it takes to get a big snow event in
the UK, now I am getting the idea.