Taken by itself, even here it wasn't actually too bad. It was more the way everyone else was going on about how wonderful it was, all the news reports etc - made it look like we down here just ended up with scraps.
Put it another way, I'd take it again in a heartbeat if I could, seeing the ground covered in snow - not just a bit of slush on the grass only, as we had today - is a wonderful thing. Sadly it's something which isn't seen most years, and indeed it's now 3 years since the last time snow settled on the pavements and roads here. (Before that was 2018, and before that 2013 - so maybe twice a decade these days).
As for 2010, it snowed on the 30th November, 6cm or so, eventually ending up at 18cm, briefly; my notes record 60 hours of snowfall.
It then rained on the 4th December and melted it all - part one was over.
There was then nothing for two more weeks, but on the 18th it snowed again, with 8cm falling in the afternoon. It was topped up over the next couple of days, then overnight on the 20th the dewpoint rose above freezing, setting the thaw in motion. It then chucked it down with rain on the 23rd and that was the end of it... a total of 7 days of decent snow on the ground.
Again, nice in terms of 21st century snow, but only two of those seven days were ice days, so the drip-drip-drip was ever-present.
As with today, I couldn't help but think how much better it'd have been if the 1 or 1.5 degrees of warming since the 80s was removed!
Originally Posted by: Retron