In short for central south Hampshire - wasn't bad, with one decent snowfall, but could of been more memorable.
Now, bye bye cold . . .
As a resident of central South hampshire would agree.January's 5 of days lying snow is not bad for the Solent Snow desert.
On a national scale the events of March have upgraded the winter significantly.For the first time in many years the winter has delivered real blizzard conditions ie a combination of snow blowing in very strong winds and snow falling.The southeast and Channel isles got the first taste a couple of weeks ago and the last couple of days have produced wide spread drifting in the Pennines,NW England,SW Scotalnd and northern Island. The degree of nothern blocking has indeed been epic ,with the Arctic Oscillation touching -5!
March blizzards are not that uncommon and the cold winter of 1979 delivered a sting in its tail with blizzard conditioins an heavily drifting snow across the Midlands and Pennines.I narrowly avoided getting snowed in on the A 50 near ashby on a bitter Friday evenibg in latre March.
Until this month the recent run of cold winters failed to produce much in the way of drifting snow.Lets hope that the low solar activity expected in the next 10 years helps produce the March synoptics in a January.!