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Nick G writes:
Can anybody confirm that my memory isn´t playing tricks on me; on Boxing Day
in 1985 I remember waking up to heavy snowfall, leaving a deep covering. My
parents only seem to remember the infamous 1962 Boxing Day snowfall (the
start of the big un).

If it is true then it will rank as my only really true snowy Xmas period.

Whereabouts were you living then? If in the north of England or Scotland
it could be possible. There was heavy rain in the south, with colder
weather arriving late in the day.

Boxing Day, 1984 seems a better candidate, when wintry showers extended
south to SW England.

And if my memory serves me right, 1985 was a very snowy winter overall with
a severe cold spell in early February.

I'm unclear, since you referred earlier to Boxing Day 1985, whether you
mean the winter of 1985-6 or 1984-5. February, 1986 was severely cold,
though without that much snow in most of the south; both January and
February, 1985 had severely cold, snowy spells.
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