Last winter the snow stopped coming about a week before the day and it was pretty much all melted on Christmas day, there were only a few frozen spots on the grass left over. It was one of those long, slow and painful thaws. I am hoping for a white christmas this year, it was so close last year! What I always hope for is an East Kent streamer, those always give this area a good dumping of around a foot in the valleys and even more on top of the hills/cliffs.