Osbourne One-Nil

Thank you everyone - I understand that for some they fear they might have to wait a bit longer until they can start looking for the end of the next cold spell, but the more this thread stays on topic the more use it is to everyone!

Snowing lightly here right now with a hint of the very barest of the slightest dusting overnight. Great Asby is an absolute pig of a location in terms of having a topography which results in almost constant blowing drizzle whilst 5 miles away in Appleby, it can be sunny and dry. Murton, where my parents lived, experiences the infamous Helm Wind...which did result in this in March 2018 and conditions such as this - https://photos.app.goo.gl/trpVZNtiHAWoRnZZ8

Please everyone - I'm very grumpy tonight so please make an effort to stay on topic. It's not hard!

Not far at all - my parents lived at Murton and I can see Murton Pike from my house in Great Asby with Dufton Pike being a little bit further over to the left. I do love the fact that there's often someone with snow nearby. Rarely the Lakes...they're too gentrified to have snow, but this weekend, for example, my eldest and I went up onto Tailbridge Hill above Kirkby Stephen for a walk to Nine Standards Rigg. The road was clear as I drove up but half an hour later I made the executive decision to head back down and go for a walk at a lower level... IMG_5086.MOV. IMG_5088.MOV

You're going to have to "Everest" Hartside Pass in the summer. Only 23 circuits I think. I've been up it loads and it's a doddle...albeit I always was in a car.

Great Asby, Cumbria... Mean temp: 3.7º Ave max: 6.2º Ave min: 1.4º Highest max: 12.6º (18th) Lowest max: 0.8º (28th) Highest min: 9.7º (18th) Lowest min: -5.3º (25th) Air frosts: eleven Highest wind gust: 44mph (26th) Wettest day: 33mm (26th) No. wet days: twenty two Total rainfall: 152mm

There's a lot you'll be getting used to if you've moved from Norfolk to County Durham! I found Cumbria an eye-opener after growing up in Suffolk. It frequently surprises me the difference the Pennines make to the weather given their relative height. Nine times out of ten, when I cross over the top above Stainmore, the weather really is markedly different on the Cumbrian side to the Durham one. I think Consett's snowfall might be simply down to its elevation though...around 900ft. What's Norfolk's highest point...somewhere near Sheringham? I wonder if it's the first point inland that...oh, I actually don't know!

Incoming...

Ahem

Don't feed the trolls....many responses plus one wind-up post just removed.

As has already been requested this morning, please use the appropriate thread for your response. For example, if you want to discuss the model output, then the model output discussion thread would seem the place to do it. If you are upset that some computer generated charts are showing a version of a future that won’t happen anyway different to the version you were hoping for, I’d try the moans thread.

But not here.

Model discussion and personal forecasts are not the same thing. One off topic post can lead to many more! Please use the right threads.

The BBC isn't a model - Matt Hugo isn't a model (apologies if he does this on the side), but this is the model discussion thread! Happy New Year.

Let’s make a good start to today shall we? We all know if our post is off topic. Some of us even say as much in the post....yet still post. Please, there’s a thread for pretty much everything here...just choose the right one!