And it's not even December yet (just about). Apart from last winter we usually have to wait until February for a millimetre of wet stuff that lasts 5 minutes. It makes you think.

It's snowing down here in Stockport now, but it's still less than half an inch depth. In any normal year we are the last to get snow anyway. The surrounding hills block it. Most years we get none. Last December to June during the abnormal wind directions we joined Cumbria in enjoying a 7-month drought.