Can't remember the dates but at least once a year we would get sent home from secondary school because of the snow. The "country" folk would go home first on the busses, before the roads got snowed up, and us "town" kids would stay and pelt the busses with snowballs.
It always seemed to snow on a sunday night. Don't know if thats when i was watching the most or if it was the thought of looking forward to a week off school.
Can remember one wednesday night when i had one of those free paper rounds, when i got £15 for delivering what seemed like thousands of free papers, it was cold there had been a few snow showers during the day but around 7.00 it started snowing and continued till i'd finished delivering my papers by which time 8.30 the main A6 road was closed and it was about 3 inches deep there were more snow showers during the night and needless to say my dad tried to get to work the day after, but gave up when his car got stuck at the bottom of the road !
Then there was Feb 1996 the only time i can remember the M6 between Preston and the North being down to 1 lane, there were cars abandoned and even a gritter got stuck just off the M6 at Carnforth, we were following it at the time ! Thats the deepest snowfall in my area i can remember.
Would be happy with one decent fall of lying snow this winter, lasting for 7/10 days then a clear frosty end to winter, you can but hope