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Autumn meets winter, Sowcroft Lane

The foreground suggests winter; the leaves in the right middleground suggest autumn. Snow fell unusually early in 2008... This was taken on 29 October.

In fact, snow in October in this part of the world is extremely rare. Sleet or wet snow falls in the South-East on average about once every ten years, but the last time it settled was in 1926. And the last time there was as much on the ground was in 1880. [Information provided by meteorologist Philip Eden.]