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Heavy shower rumbling a few miles to the south here I would guess currently near Pickering. We have had about 3mm in two brief but heavy showers already.

Mainly Rosedale opposite Lion Inn on Blakey, at the start is halfway up Farndale

I would check the plug in connector is reasonably clean but most likely you'll need replace it. The actual sensor might be replaceable but if it's been up 7 years it will be getting tired anyway. My previous one low wind would no longer turn the cups so I changed bearIngs then shortly after had a similar north wind only (= no signal) issue so got another from weather spares

I have seen similar and more in early May, there is usually the odd day in April but there have been several and extreme low temperatures too this time.

My webcam needs replacing but a nice Christmassy scene this morning. Again

They have all been and gone just catching Scarborough area now.

Another significant snowfall must be the last today surely. Heavy snow for past couple of hours on and off, brightening up now but still freezing. About two inche on the ground similar to yesterday

An inch or so here first thing the main feature was hideous wind chill with gusts close to 50mph and -2C until after 10am. Conditions have eased this afternoon it just reached 4C but still some snow remaining in shade.

Here this was 24th March at about 17C These are wild ones rarely fully open before April here. Then this was 5th April The worst thing was a great deal of damage to power and phone cables due to this effect. (4th) Some places were not reconnected for about two weeks but they did set up temporary emergency generators.

Equinox is on the 20th a little early this year. I note the time between sunrise and sunset actually exceeds 12 hours here on the 18th though. We are now at peak gain with about 4:25 more light every day - it starts to decelerate during the last week of March.

I live very few miles away and it is rare to get more than 3 or 4 days over 25C in the entire year and over 30C is practically a once in a decade event. Unless you go back to 1975/76 which mysteriously get overlooked when people want to present the idea it is getting hotter in the UK.

You jest surely, it is rare Whitby exceeds 25C and often only a handful of days top 20C The North Sea is exceptionally dominant and is always on the cold side. Very rarely. as happened in 1965 a foehn effect is created by air descending and warming dramatically after passing over the moors a few miles inland

Average temperature = 3.3°C; diff from climate av: -0.4°C Average humidity = 89% Average dewpoint = 1.6°C Average barometer = 1013.5 mb Average windspeed = 8.6 mph Average gustspeed = 12.9 mph Average direction = 205° (SSW) Rainfall for month = 49.6 mm (-10mm) Rainfall for year = 193.6 mm (+57mm) Maximum rain per minute = 0.4 mm on day 06 at time 22:29 Maximum temperature = 13.2°C on day 24 at time 15:43 Minimum temperature = -7.7°C on day 10 at time 08:16 Maximum humidity = 98% on day 28 at time 10:29 Minimum humidity = 67% on day 27 at time 15:45 Maximum dewpoint = 11.2°C on day 24 at time 12:37 Minimum dewpoint = -9.3°C on day 10 at time 8:07 Maximum pressure = 1040.8 mb on day 27 at time 11:24 Minimum pressure = 990.7 mb on day 03 at time 04:42 Maximum windspeed = 41.4 mph from 203°(SSW) on day 14 at time 01:01 Maximum gust speed = 71.3 mph from 203°(SSW) on day 14 at time 01:08 Maximum heat index = 13.2°C on day 24 at time 15:43 Avg daily max temp :6.1°C Avg daily min temp :0.6°C Growing degrees days :0.0 GDD Total windrun = 4985.7miles Frost days= 12 Ice days= 4

Is it just here been absurdly windy this evening, we have had gusts to 60mph and it's still nearly -3 The drifting higher up especially must be insane. Windchill -13 an hour ago Earlier:

Proper snow showers here this morning rather than the graupel and wind is a touch north of east. Wind picks up during showers and it's quite spectacular but they blow through fast. Temperature slowly edging down in tenths of a degree and bumps down during showers - 1.9 at about 5am

For NE England the Lake Effect showers are often limited in an easterly it's when the air is from NE to North it has much longer fetch over the sea but still enough angle of attack to come inland from the coast quite a way. Tomorrow will be the best chance of more significant snow showers but again tending to form chains over one place and just flurries in others.

Showers are a bit more pokey now but interestingly are of graupel/fine soft hail rather than real snowflakes.

Starting to accumulate and pretty heavy now, as a sort of extended shower piles up against higher ground on radar

Heavy snow now over the moors now, looking at radar precip piles in but doesn't really advance it just grinds to a halt against the higher ground. Starting to get white and gauge has stopped counting melt. though it says +0.4C

I'd much rather have a small amount of snow but the spectacular fine dry stuff that drifts about in even moderate wind with temperature around freezing. Like this

It seems to be fizzling out rather sooner than they predicted, we have a couple of inches it was quite blizzardy an hour ago and caught a lot out going to work etc by the sound of it.

Also it's not just evenings, due to axial tilt change in sunrise time lags quite a lot, if the clocks went forward about now here for example sunrise would be 9am it was bad enough at 8.25am between Christmas and New Year. I do think it would be better changed about 1st March though. We are now into peak daylength gain though with 2 minute extra both ends it stacks up rapidly every week, and you really notice it if there's been a few overcast gloomy days then suddenly some clear skies.