UK snow chaos: Why you are to blame | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Natural variations in weather has given us here in the UK about three decades of benign winter weather. The current run of three colder winters is merely a throwback.
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We may see more snowy winters in the next few years – warmer oceans mean more precipitation – or we may not. What is clear, given the rise of hypermobility – is that fury at dashed travel plans in the heart of winter would be more accurately directed at ourselves. And the "good news"? While it's hard to predict next year's weather in the UK, global warming means severe winters will become rarer.

BBC News - Time to spend more money preparing for colder winters?

By Philip Eden Vice President Royal Meteorological Society 2007-09

December 2010 is every bit as cold and snowy as the worst December of the 20th Century - 1981 - and it could well turn out to be the coldest December since 1890.
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What can be said with very little doubt is that, once this cluster of cold winters has finished, we will have another lengthy run of mild and rainy ones, and if we spend piles of cash on snowploughs and de-icing equipment, we may come to regret it.

Thousands stranded as passengers stuck freezing on trains | News

More than 100 passengers were stuck on a train for six hours overnight when tracks froze near Sevenoaks. The Southeastern train from Victoria to Ashford halted between Kemsing and Otford after heavy snow. Passengers were rescued at 3am after another train was sent alongside.