It's bizarre. Just had a look myself. The small side street I live on isn't covered yet Whickham highway at lobley hill is white. We must have been unluckily in a gap all night! I reckon no more than a cm on grass that will be gone by 11am.
The Metoffice have changed from heavy snow all morning to light snow transitioning to rain on Friday morning for my location. It was only a matter of time. And I'm over 400ft about 15 mile from the coast.