Interesting to see the ‘Basingstoke Blizzard’ of 2009 being brought up on the MAD thread in terms of snowfalls that pop up out of the blue.
Much more surprising was 2019- we had a couple of inches first thing and by 11am had finished snowploughing. It was getting slushy anyway and nothing more was forecasted. I took the snowplough off the tractor and went in for a sandwich with a view to catching up with cattle jobs.
I noticed it started to snow lightly while I was having lunch. Within half an hour it was dumping down, totally unforecasted, and carried on snowing until midnight until we had 10 inches level. The met office issued one of the geographically smallest amber warnings I’ve ever seen, a strip from just south of Newbury down to Alton. The A339 was mayhem- blocked by hundreds of stranded cars.
I’m pretty sure I live in one of the snowiest parts of the South of England. Very , very rarely do we get a winter without a covering of snow. BFTE in 2018 we had enormous drifts. 10ft high in places. The one in my profile picture was not the biggest!