On Nov 23, 2:16*pm, Ken Cook wrote:
On 23 Nov, 13:43, wrote:

Was surprised at how much snow we got here yesterday. We were right in
the firing line and it was like persistent snow rather than showers.
I note that Bridlington reported 6mm yesterday, 10 miles due E from
here, but significantly less in the way of showers right on the coast.

Hi, David,

As I wrote yesterday, I expected you would get a fair amount. When I
lived in Scarborough
(in the 1950's and 1960's) large depths of snow just inland from the
coast were not unusual with northerlies.
The depth seemed to be greatest around the Staxton area, especially on
the Wolds, and gradually
diminish beyond Malton to nothing at York. I remember up to a foot
level with nothing 10 miles west
or on the coast.

I well remember watching the continuous stream of Cb clouds by-passing
us to the north and south.
It was all to do with topography and sea temperatures according to my
science teachers at the time.

A very interesting area on a cold northerly. The pub at Blakey on the
moors often had massive amounts
and I see yesterday Fylingdales was reporting almost continuous snow
yesterday.

Ken

We're pretty much due South of Staxton and Fylingdales and you could
almost draw a line a few miles inland from us beyond which it doesn't
snow..
It's interesting that you mention topography, as if you follow the
angle of the coastline from Sunderland South to Saltburn and continue
onto the Humber, the chunk that sits East of this jutting into the
North Sea is particularly the area prone to showers. I am totally not
a scientist, but could the uplift of the Northerly as hits the coast
with some fairly decent cliffs in the Northern part, be the trigger
for the shower activity??? The showers seem to form off the coast here
with no sign of them running past Newcastle, so something must trigger
it somehow. It seems that a very slight Westerly element favours us
here as well.
Anyway, it's beyond me, so long may it continue.

David Mitchell.