I remember Matt Taylor was sent to Stirling in Scotland for BBC Breakfast as they expected to see snow scenes and snow falling and it was green! lol. 

I think it was 4th/5th December 2008

Yes that was a massive fail not sure if it was the Rob M one though..

Feb 2005 I was at uni in  York and woke up to see green grass . I was gobsmacked . Had to head back home  to higher ground for therapy, good snow cover above 150m. Part of the problem was that  the precipitation was lighter than antisipated. Thankfully there were other snow events in that month. 

I remember it as waves of systems off the Atlantic, which had increasingly robust North Atlantic blocking building in behind each one, bringing a colder and colder airflow.

There'd been MO suggesting the first wintry weather would happen as a front passed through on Saturday 12th Dec, and we were out for a meal for the OutLaws' anniversary at a nice place near Delamere Forest that evening. I was hoping the front would bring at least a period of snow and spent most of the evening refreshing the radar and trying to find out what it was falling as. Slightly sleety rain was, ultimately, the answer; another disappointment chalked up.

I wasn't that hopeful for anything better, but the following week Manchester had some beefy showers of graupel/snow (giving a temporary covering one evening around rush hour I think). The following Saturday at home - colder temps now - we had snow/graupel mix showers that left a light covering. I took my eldest daughter to the park with the sledge (she was 6 back then!) and the showers just kept coming. By the end of the day there was about 2cm, and another cm or two fell the next day. We had another couple of falls in the following days, topping the snow depth up to (IIRC) about 8-10cm, which froze in the days leading up to Xmas.

Boxing day saw a bit of thawing with I think some brief light drizzle, but skies cleared and everything re-froze that night. The thaw proper set in as we moved from the 27th to 28th Dec and temps recovered back towards double digits.

Like I said earlier in the thread, I assumed that was that and we'd not be looking at a return of winter for a while. So glad I was wrong.