This was frustrating for cold weather lovers, a potential cold spell and it goes pear-shaped,  6th to 9th February 1995. Always stuck in my mind this, how it went belly-up.

Monday night's forecast suggest an extensive frost by Wednesday night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7Pg1lthd4

By Tuesday night's forecast, the frost for Wednesday night is not quite as extensive as previously predicted but the front pushing southwards to clear the bulk of the country and a very extensive frost for Thursday night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLThnuw_grA

By Wednesday night, the front was to clear most parts leaving a cold Thursday and Friday, with the threat of frontal snow for weekend as Atlantic systems try and move in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7k3VdHUQIs

It had all changed by Thursday, the system was not going to clear through but push back northwards, so Friday is now forecasted to be milder in the south than predicted with snow further north and the weekend milder than predicted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrQRSV27rk

What I remember was that we had snow flurries on the Wednesday from the front sinking southwards and during Thursday evening ahead of the advancing front but the expected main snowfall never happened and all we had was heavy rain. The expected frosty nights, we only had one frost.

The really cold air never even got to the far south nor southwest.

This was the age, where most people wanting to know what the weather was going to be like in a few days time had to largely rely on the BBC 5 day weather broadcasts, this was before widespread Internet use where now you can just go look at the models yourself, so it came across as a shock to see how quick predictions change.