A weather pattern in the North Sea like that one has occurred three memorable times during the time I lived in the north East Midlands. The difference was that it was winter or early spring. We were deluged in heavy snow on each of these occasions, twice being cut off for days and on one occasion approximately two hundred occupants of vehicles trapped in the snow had to be accommodated for some nights in local village halls and elsewhere. However, because it didn’t occur near a “media important” area, none of it appeared on the news. The snow falls reported in the media were far less than we saw.