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a flooded street with geese
The heavy rain that brought devastating flooding to Cumbria and southwest Scotland finally cleared the Kent coast on Friday. The rest of the country saw showers while it remained very mild for the time of year.

silhouette of man sitting on a bench on the grassy top of a hill in the foreground with branches of a tree in the top right-hand corner of the picture. Hill in the distance partly obscured by mist, setting sun in the far distance with grey cloud below and orange-pink sky above.
Many parts of the UK experienced an 'Indian summer' during the latter part of the month. However, heavy rain over parts of Aberdeenshire caused localised flooding towards the end of October.

Children enjoy playing in the huge debris left after a hailstorm on Ford Farm Way, Ottery St Mary, Devon.
A round-up of the headline weather events during 2008. From snow in London in October, to 20 million gallons of flood water in an underpass in Belfast, it was a big weather year.



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