(09 Nov 2016, 5:56 pm)GMitchelhill wrote In my experience, the Dewentside area has it's own seperate weather system compared to the rest of the North East.
Coupled with lots of hills (up and down).
Many's the time when West Auckland to Allensford (including Consett to Shotley Bridge) is a no-go route because of snow (though not nearly so much as during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (though I guess 2010 would have been bad - we even had it down in the Tyne Valley).