Surely not as a surprise given the media had been “omg snow!” for the past day non stop?
Yes, but that didn't seem to apply to us. There was a forecast for "heavy snow" last night, and it did snow for a couple of hours, but hardly settled - a dusting at most that had gone within hours. Whilst the rest of the country seemingly had tons. So I figured that was our lot.
Conversely, it's just been raining non-stop here all day, and no mention of snow at all in the forecast. So we headed out then found ourselves in a blizzard at the top of Bluebell Hill. Came as a bit of surprise.