QUOTE(Babybird2 @ Jan 8 2010, 04:29 PM)

I remember skylark saying once that weather at her area was very snowy and ours wasn't anywhere near as bad - and we can't live more than 10 miles apart

That happens quite a lot between us London-y forumites, differences in weather like that

I'm not by any means a weather expert, but quite often precipitation will fall as rain on the coast, before moving inland and turning to snow. Not sure why that is, though...