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Peter Thomas writes:
I'm puzzled and possibly embarrassed by the conflict between my
recollection of the first evening of heavy snow on New Years Eve at
Woking and the more general recollection that snowed earlier, Boxing
Day or so.

My memory insists that the major event of very heavy snow was the night
of 31/12/62 - 1/1/63. Memorable for my father - technically disabled -
cheerfully helping get guests' cars under way on leaving, before being
hospitalised the next day with what thankfully turned out to be only
anaemia. That day and night I remember as being when the snow all
came.

Have I simply forgotten? Was there snow in west Surrey earlier?

I think you may have it confused with the previous year. There was heavy
snow on New Year's Eve, 1961. In 1962, there was heavy snow on 26-27 Dec
and then again on 29-30 Dec. (And there was some on the evening of the
31st as well, but not as heavy as the other two falls.)
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)