I think in this set up for late Wednesday afternoon & overnight in to Thursday will bring a lot of heavy snow showers to a lot of the region perhaps merging together to give longer heavier periods of snow throughout the night just like December 2010 on the night of the 17/18th. But that's just my opinion.
EDIT: The amber warning for heavy snow that night was only issued at 5pm Friday evening only 3 hours before the snow event began. Just worth keeping in mind.
This has just been posted in the MOD thread, can't get more of an IMBY post than that! Laughable!
"If we could just get a more north east feed rather than a n/nw shown in the models everyone would be in for the fun!"