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Screenfly writes:
Didn't snow fall in East Anglia in early October 1974, the earliest in
the last fifty years?

I remember that October, 1974 was exceptionally cold. It was then
followed by a very mild winter.

wasn't this the same 'winter' that produced the legendary June 02
snowfall over similar areas in Suffolk and Essex!

Yes. I'm not sure that any actually lay in that area, but there were a
couple of inches on the ground in Buxton in Derbyshire. But within a
week or so the weather had turned very warm, and it was a very good
summer.
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John Hall

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