When talking to friends and relatives on the phone, the most common question is 'What's the weather doing?'.
The question, although so very British, is not confined to the people I talk to in Britain — my German friends ask it just as often.

At the moment the question has been refined to 'Have you still got snow?'
The answer is 'No — it's gone.'

To prove it, here are two pictures, taken just ten minutes ago:





You see — no snow, it's gone, almost.

By comparison, here is a picture taken a fortnight ago:



See the difference?
Correct — we have bare patches now, we didn't last week ...