The Lake District has a climate of its own

The Lake District National Park Authority runs a Weatherline Service because of the area's unique climate.

This winter, from December until March, felltop assessors Pete Collins and Nick Chetwood will be taking it in turns to climb Helvellyn to report on weather conditions for climbers and walkers.

They will record wind speed, temperature, the amount of snow and ice and the state of the footpaths.

Each assessor is expected to reach the 3,118 foot summit in under two hours.

The authority says Helvellyn is the ideal place to collect winter weather data because it is Lakeland's busiest mountain in winter and conditions in its north easterly gullies are typical of the central fells.

More than one million people have called the Weatherline forecast over the last 25 years.