Check out this link courtesy of BBC Weather Seattle appears to be the latest place to have vast amounts of snow. dont they say when america gets it we normally get it a few weeks after lol http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/16635817
Washington DC in the USA had a big snowfall at the end of October 2011 as in this post: http://www.metserv.info/threads/early-snow-hits-washington-dc.49009/ We didn't get affected by this. It doesn't happen very often, the last few snowy winters of ours mostly came from the opposite direction to the USA.