I prediced a light dusting for the Birmingham area with most going to the SW in our region which was correct, but I'm definately surprised how well Northants did.
Not sure why people take the little symbols from the Met Office or BBC as gospel then complain when it doesn't come off. True their main forecasts were also wrong, but it was clear from quite an early stage this wasn't going as planned (and I always felt the synpotics weren't ideal anyway).