Brits and snow

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Why is it that, every October or November, as soon as the temperature drops a bit, everyone says it's going to snow in the next few days?
Yesterday a co-worker said, "the temperature has got colder tonight, that means snow is on its way", even though there has been no snow forecasted for this part of the country, and that a common fact is that it is the time of the year where the nights do feel colder than they did back in August.

Also people say that if places in America like New York has snow it means England will get it a week later. That ain't a rule either, as it all depends on what way the wind is blowing and what the weather front is. Sometimes it fizzles out, other times it turns to rain when it hits England, and we have got all the snow from Siberia before, which is the other side.

People say that if there are berries on certain bushes it means a cold winter is on its way. That ain't true either, because the bushes they are talking about naturally grow berries every year, and also I've seen those sorts of bushes full of berries one autumn and we had a mild, wet winter after that. So you can't go by that either.

When a small amount of snow is forecasted only in northern Scotland, everybody seems to think that the whole of southern England is getting it too. Snow is common in the north, year after year. Just because the weatherman says the word "snow", it doesn't mean there will be snow all over the country next week.

And lastly, a few Novembers ago they had a big weather warning on the front of a newspaper saying about the next few months are going to be 'colder than the Arctic' and '6 feet of snow expected for England in the next 4 months'. Then, the next few months came and went and England literally did not get a single flake of snow, it rained throughout the winter and then winter turned to spring. So that was all a lie.

The way I see it, the weather will be what it will be. Last spring they said the summer was going to be a wash-out, but it turned out to be the hottest, driest summer I've known for years. But year after year people still believe these rash weather predictions.

Just thought I'd get it off my chest.

I always say... want to know what the weather is? Look out of the window.

When it does snow everyone jumps in their cars and gets stuck.

I live in Canada so I know a thing or two about snow and some of the weirder weather predictions.

For example, there are these fuzzy caterpillars that are usually black on both ends and brown in the middle that are common in the fall, and some people say it's supposed to mean we will get a lot of snow at the beginning and end of winter but there will be much less of it in between. If it's brown at both ends and black in the middle, then it means the opposite. That's just silly. At least they aren't dangerous and picking up and touching them won't make you violently sick like all these other caterpillars I've heard about.

I've seen snowy winters quite a few times in my life. It's one of the perks of living in Canada. I've also got to enjoy about 5 white Christmases.

Cockney lives in Vancouver, I believe.

They average maybe 10 inches, 25 cm of snow every winter.

It's usually above freezing there.

On the weather forums, there is a popular saying "It snows when it wants to snow".

Might as well trust a bookie as a meteorologist...
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I live in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.