Yesterday I woke up to see that one of the mountains further south was covered in snow. It snowed quite heavily yesterday (and today promises more of the same) but fortunately didn't stick. Where I live it's very easy to get snowed in with a minimal amount of snow simply because there is no great plan in place to grit the roads, and nobody has access to snow tyres (although I'm assured they used them here in the 1930's!)
Living on a mountainside, if we walk/ride/drive down an ungritted road we will have an almighty crash at the bottom, and indeed this is what happens with monotonous regularity whenever we have more than two inches of snow.
I can remember when I was a child being told that we would have snow whenever an old tin bath that hung out in the back yard started clanging against the wall with the wind. Usually you can spot a snow sky because it has a distinctly yellow tinge to it.
Yesterday however there was no yellow tinge in the sky and it was still snowing - so I shall have to revise this bit of weather-lore to read that the sky needs a yellowish tinge if the snow is going to stick! 
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Believe it or not but I have seen snow falling only once. I was about 8 years of age and that was probably the only time that snow had/has fallen in Marton, my childhood town.
Thank you for your very interesting snow story. More of the kind will be very welcome indeed.