On Thursday, 29 January 2015 11:54:43 UTC, David Mitchell wrote:
Is it always down to synoptics Ken?
A lot of showers got right across into NE England and equally quite a few have also penetrated a long way East, South of the Humber.
I never expect much more than a smattering from a Westerly, but some parts further East seem to do fairly well out of them and I can't work out why.

Hi, David,
Westerly showers in these situations seem to carry further east to our side than easterlies seem to do do over to the west side. [if you get my drift (;0) ]
Over to the experts for the proper explanations.
There is a lot more snow further west in upper Teesdale than here atm though.
Ken