To be or not to be?

Since Monday a running tally of wildly varying forecasts have kept me entertained. At various times we've been told; it will snow on Friday (tomorrow), won't snow at all, will snow lightly, will snow heavily in the afternoon and finally, this evening we're told it'll snow heavily shortly after dawn.

BBC weather forecasters warn that similar quantities of snow will fall on London as on Monday. The north west of London is most at risk, with a forecast of eight inches (20cm). We're almost due north so it'll only require this band of snow to drift a few miles west and we'll be inundated.

Further north, much of mid and northern England has been enduring day after day of regular snowfall since the weekend. At least 20cm of snow has been reported in parts of the Cotswolds today. Further north more than a foot of snow has fallen in two days. The full extend of nation's snow cover can be clearly seen in satellite photos above taken earlier in the week. It's the white stuff running up the middle of the country.

UPDATE: 7.30am Friday
The weather forecast changed again overnight from heavy snow to nothing more than sleet. We woke to extraordinarily large flakes falling. The snow lasted 15 minutes before turning into freezing rain. It's seems we're in for nothing more than a light dusting today.

UPDATE: 6.00pm Friday
The snow never came. We had a couple of hours of bitterly cold sleet around 4pm and not much else. The weather left a thick layer of slippy sludge on roads and pavements every where. While no more snow is forecast, we've been told to expect temperatures hovering around 0C for the next few days. The cold weather is forecast to continue for most of February.