The other thing I can't get my head around is how, if you watch the precipitation maps on meteociel or whoever, the centre of England is in the biggest rain shadow in Europe.
It's like the fack that countries either side of the 10,000+ Alps are getting plenty of precipitation and yet we, the wettest part of Europe as an island, are in the most effective rain shadow of the 2,500ft Cambrian mountains.
So, when a front approaches us bearing snow, it all gets dumped over Wales and fizzles out over the Midlands, then goes over the channel to France and peps up again, then crosses the Alps and is absolutely fine dumping tons of snow over the Eastern Block.