Kent woke up to snow this morning, but those who looked up at the night sky around midnight last night had already been given a warning of what was to come.

There was what is known as a "22-degree halo" around the moon.

It happens only rarely when the moon is at a particular angle to the earth and the frozen water crystals in the earth's atmosphere refract the light in a certain way, so that the area immediately below the moon is not lit up.

The result last night was to give the appearance that a large black hole had been punched through the grey cloud cover around the moon, with the edge of the circle slightly more luminous than the rest - giving the "halo" effect.

One observer in Maidstone said: "To me it was not so much the halo that stood out, but the fact that it looked like there was a big hole in the sky."

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