Since I've looked at the summary charts on a daily basis, the contrast between the UK and Scandinavia has been striking over the whole of winter. I'd expect to see an even more anomalously high snow total for Norway.
On the synoptic front, the pattern for most of the winter has been for depressions to move eastwards near the north of Scotland and then dive southwards over the Baltic; hence westerlies for the UK but northerlies for Scandinavia. We did of course get Storm Arwen back in November, when one of these depressions turned south before reaching Norway, and that was spectacular enough but a one-off. However Scandinavia had repeated events like Arwen, just not quite such high windspeeds
Originally Posted by: DEW