"Shaun Pudwell" wrote in message
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Here on the Isle-of-Sheppey, Warden Bay, last year we had about an inch of
snow. We've been here for almost five years and that was the most snow I've
recorded in that time. My parents who live in Gillingham, have during the
same period had numerous occasions where two, three or four inches of snow
have fallen. I do agree though that there has not been a sustained cold
period in recent years. The last relatively big snowfall I can remember was
January 1997, also winter 1995/1996, February 1991 and of course January
1987 which temporarily cut the Medway towns off. That year we hade more
than 3 feet of level snow and day temps below -5. There were also massive
icicles, the likes of which I had never seen until that time.


Three *feet* of level snow??
I would have thought that would be practically impossible in coastal SE
England both now and throughout recorded history.

Col
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