Aye, I didn't realise that France was getting a lot of snow until a friend of mine posted a video of his girlfriend in Paris pulling on a branch of a tree and lots of snow falling on her, it looked quite deep in places, I did notice on the f/cast last week they were predicting up to 2ft of snow for parts of northern Spain too...seems to be the norm now, the UK gets stuck under a high and the cold goes SE through Europe and towards northern Africa, another friend of mine sent me a video tonight of where she lives in Kazan, Russia and they are struggling to cope with the heaviest snow in 140yrs, drifts to the top of doorways, they've had blizzards for days and temps of around -20deC she reported, Moscow had record snowfall earlier this week too...ah well, maybe the predicted SSW will bring some to us...probably in March when the flowers are out and birds are nesting...