You can manipulate statistics to mean lots of things but statistics do not always tell how it really feels.All the winters of 1947,1963,1979 and 2010 were all completely different or could you say the extended winter dec to april 2013 was worse than that of 2009/2010,it felt like that to me and it sure is different with your location as here in the hills is another world than 15 miles to leeds or Manchester.It was only in the 90's all the talk was drought and Mediterranean summers,how that has changed !