Brrr-itain: it's cold and we have snow!

Even though our weather forecast was for much colder temps and snow, I didn't quite believe it because the forecast is so often wrong (to be fair, it's difficult to predict the weather on an island since it can change very quickly and unexpectedly) but lo and behold it did get very cold today and then snow started coming down this evening. Snow and freezing weather threaten to shut down Britain The Met Office is warning of an "extreme weather event" across large swathes of England, Scotland and Wales with up to 10in of snow expected even in the usually warmer south and as much as 1ft on higher ground (link via telegraph.co.uk) Severe weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office. Snow flurries came down really fast and furious for a while this evening (in East Hertfordshire) but it stopped almost as quickly as it started. It didn't amount to much after all that excitement (it hardly ever snows in this part of England and when it does it's usually just a light dusting) although we did get about an inch of snow on the ground. It's very cold too (well, by English standards, not anything like the winter temps in my homestate - Minnesota)so it definitely looks and feels like winter. If you are in the UK, what is the weather like where you are? Have you had any snow? Wherever you live in the world, what is the weather like? I know a lot of American states have been badly affected by winter storms. And in the southern hemisphere, where it's summer, they've had a particularly intense heatwave. Australia has recorded temperatures soaring to 46C (115 Fahrenheit)! When I hear about temperatures like that, I think I am happy to put up with a bit of cold weather.