It's precisely 10yrs to the week from the infamous 'Easterly that never was' of Jan' 2006. ALL the models predicted a monster Beast from the East then collapsed to nothing in 36hrs. I'd stocked up the freezer and piled the house full of wood and coal. The bitter recriminationations rumbled on for months on the forum.
Even by Daily Express standards, this is a shocker >> http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/742699/Snow-UK-weather-forecast-coldest-winter
Naturally, James Madden is in there somewhere
*sigh*