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  • Location: Manchester City center/ Leeds Bradfor Airport 200m
  • Location: Manchester City center/ Leeds Bradfor Airport 200m

Durham would have seen rain on the evening of the 2nd of Feb 2009. So I don't think its far enough inland to not be affected by an onshore breeze.

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  • Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria
  • Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria

Having lived frustratingly close to the Irish Sea all my life and looked longingly at the snow piling up at the doorsteps of our Eastern cousins, I would have to say that the North Sea is superior (as a sea to live next to in cold weather), in every way! Even the last 2 winters when we have done well, the East has had more. Maybe it sleeted on Scarborough Pier (does it have one?!) but look at how much snow they usually get in places not that far from the sea, such as Newcastle, compared to over here. Over here we need a really cold Northerly straight from the Pole to have some sort of low pressure form in its flow around Stranraer or somwhere, thus knocking the wind in North West England round to a NWesterly so that it comes onto the land off the Irish Sea packed with big fat clouds. This, in my 27 year life, hasn't happened very often. Long draw NWesterly's just aren't cold enough if you live too near the sea, but places like Alston can get burried in them. But then Alston gets burried from every direction. Obviously if you get a NWesterly banging fronts into a big cold block, a la February 1996, then we've hit the jackpot on all the slots in the Casino whilst simultaneously winning the EuroMillions and bumping into Kelly Brook in the car park on the way home.

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Durham would have seen rain on the evening of the 2nd of Feb 2009. So I don't think its far enough inland to not be affected by an onshore breeze.

The rain on the evening of the 2nd February 2009 was caused by a warmer airmass moving up from the SE. Durham isn't immune to the warming effects of the North Sea, but often in an easterly or north-easterly it will be 1-2C colder there than at, say, South Shields.

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