KENT is soon likely to experience a spell of freezing weather. BBC weathergirl Kaddy Lee-Preston is forecasting a bout of low temperatures in either late November or early December.

But she reckons we are in for another Christmas without snow, with the first flakes not appearing until January.

Kaddy said: "It looks like the first significant cold snap here, when you can really tell a change in temperature, will be in late November or early December.

"Then January is going to be rather stormy, cold and wet - it could easily end up being snow. But surprise, surprise I'm not going for a white Christmas."

Petham weather watcher Tom Castle says the last significant snowfall over East Kent at Christmas was as long ago as 1937.

And he says the last time the district was subjected to any significant snow was in 1988. Then many schools closed down and roads were blocked during the bad weather.