WINTRY showers left a dusting of snow on hilly areas of North Yorkshire early today as an Arctic blast swept the country. These county council webcam images show snow on verges at Chop Gate, between Stokesley and Helmsley, and Blue Bank, near Whitby, at about 7am on Easter Monday. Forecasters expect further sleet and snow showers today, tonight and tomorrow, particularly towards the coast, brought in on strong north-westerly winds, although there will also be sunny periods. Temperatures are expected to rise to only 7C in York today, and fall to -3C tonight, with a maximum of only 5C forecast for tomorrow and the wind making it feel even colder.
RUNSWICK BAY has just won the Sunday Times Beach of the Year accolade, and as it has been so long in our year of lockdowns since we visited the coast, we d thought we d pull out some archive pictures to celebrate. The Sunday paper enthused about the North Yorkshire beach: “Our winner for 2020 is close to perfection, with pods of bottlenose dolphins often spotted on the horizon plus fossil-hunting and rock-pooling on the seemingly endless sands. And then Peter Sotheran of Redcar wrote with a question: May I have a ruling on how one pronounces Runswick Bay – is the ‘w’ in it silent or not?