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Just missed a biggie by a couple of miles! Hopefully it hit @Snowmaggedon though in Linthorpe.

This one is heading our way @Snowmaggedon @seabreeze86

Aye got my eye on that blob! Whoever catches that is in business.

Not Nick sapping the fun out of things again. Honestly mate, you've spent 4 days just moaning about how bad the cold spell has been, even when you've had 2 inches of snow overnight and a heavy shower is just passing through Durham. If it's that bad, surely you have something better to do than spamming a forum with whingeing?

Randomly woke up at half 5 to see a half decent shower pass through here. My internal snow sensor must have kicked in. As a side note, much better 00z GFS run. Maybe the Met Office were onto something with their long-term outlook. We might get to do it all again in two weeks!

It will take longer to feed down to us, don't worry mate. We've actually done really well from NE'ly winds in the past, in fact it's my favourite wind direction for Middlesbrough. Some big showers hitting our Geordie and Mackem friends now. Enjoy!

This place reeks with the stench of optimism tonight. Need Nick to pop in and bring everyone back down to Earth.

Wasn't expecting anything at all until about 3am but things appear to be getting going already. Still expect the north of the region to do well initially before this reaches all of us, so no need to despair Teessiders if the radar doesn't look great for us while everyone else are reporting heavy snow showers!

Another one heading your way now mate. Showers are a little bit longer lasting compared to yesterday, had a couple of half decent ones this morning.

Some bulkier showers developing at sea in the last half hour or so which look like they'll be headed towards the general Durham area.

See PM's reply to you 20 minutes ago. TWS did a post earlier explaining this in more detail. Unfortunately sometimes these factors aren't always easy to predict in advance. That's part of what makes the snow hunt exciting.

That's a chart from 1991 Nick, he's explaining why it snowed so heavily that night. People have already explained several times the reasons for the lack of snow over the last two days. Asking over and over again isn't going to change anything.

Probably the heaviest shower of the day just passed through here. Only lasted 5 minutes and was still graupel unfortunately. Should be on it's way to you @Snowmaggedon

Don't do it! Half the forum has already defected to the Nick R camp, keep the faith. Hopefully the change in wind direction improves our luck. Never had so many near misses in one day before.

Aye direct hit for you that time! Another near miss for me.