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  1. I've moaned about it before but the Yorkshire and Humber region is too big for a discussion area. Is it ever likely that snow forecasts for Skipton York and Whitby are going to be the same? I know that we can look into it in more detail but when someone hears a headline of SNOW IN YORKSHIRE it is very misleading. @vizzy2004 is far more likely to get snow than me and he only lives 10 minutes up the road.

  2. @vizzy2004 yep that's the place and the security lights are pretty intense. We were there for the Friday night snowfall in January 2013 which had pretty much gone by Sunday when I got home. We were out walking in it that night and it was great, huge swirling flakes coming through the trees.

    Hmmm was is 2013? My memory is rubbish, I really should write this stuff down.

     

  3. Late to post this but we had about an hour of snow in Strensall from 0930-1030. Laid nicely maybe a bit over 1cm but total cover on roads, pavements. Instantly made people drive at 20mph. Had to go to Malton where there was none at all. A slight covering on Whitwell hill with mist at the top. What a strange reversal!

    It's all gone now though.

     

  4. 11 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

    If its a UK weather forecast then it means Northern UK.

    True      but North York Moors (the best place for snow near me!) is in the middle of the UK. If you wanted to stretch the point it's in the south. But if the forecasters said snow on southern hills there would be a meltdown! I'm really only referring to radio forecasts as it's usually pretty plain on the maps, but see if you can see the TV presenters point to Leeds and the Pennines and say "north" when it's not even bang in the middle...

    Perhaps all i'm after is a bit more clarity and consistency which is, i think, what cold comfort was asking for.

     

    Well i've just wikipedia'd it and apparently the centre point is the forest of Bowland in Lancashire - so that does put NYM in the north (just)

  5. I get very confused when, particularly radio forecasters, say it will be raining in the north. What's the North? When i lived in Kent that was easy - everywhere was north! But Yorkshire? Well it's south of the UK middle point which i think is Haltwhistle. So that makes us in the south then. They really need to specify North of UK or England. "Snow on northern hills" is a classic and meaningless unless you live in the Grampians.

     

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