When I referred to snow in October I was citing examples of snow actually
lying. In October 1974 snow did not lie in southern England and it really
was in the form of sleety showers reported from places such as Brentwood and
Stanstead on the 7th. However October1974 was indeed a cold month and in
some places the mean was lower than the following December.

Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com



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

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