Ah, "Col", the man(?) who always posts after me, without fail.;-)

I think your expectations of the British climate are somewhat
unrealistic
as regards snow!

But very much realistic regarding Slavs.:-)

Whereabouts in the country are you?

The North-West, just east of the Pennines. We tend to miss out on BOTH
north-westerlies AND easterlies, although December 1995, February 1994,
and the other great, undoubtedly Scandinavian-induced events of the
last two or three decades have been quite kind of Huddersfield.
However, the 1999 - or was it 2000? - easterly produced pathetic WET
SNOW here and heavy snow for Brian Gaze and co. down in the South-East.
Hence, my big fear is that, with north-westerlies, like now, hardly
EVER delivering, easterly outbreaks may have lost their key "touch" or
edge in recent years. Maybe they are just not getting this far inland?

October(!) 2000 and February 2001 were good for north-westerly/easterly
outbreaks respectively though.:-)

D.