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  1.  joggs

    Doesn't look dry in most of the likely cold set-ups mid month though Joggs.

    As an early guess I think we are looking at quite a messy picture, rain, sleet and snow with not many places escaping. With such low 500 temperatures, I think snow will come down to very low levels in a showery set-up if we get the dark blues and purples in with air even at just -3/-4 850s...

    Trying to keep it as vague as that cos any more detail is just pure guess work lol, I think we are soon to enter a time where snow chances will pop up everywhere with shortwaves and spoilers littered all over the place,  So can work both ways, a likely upcoming short notice snow event could just as easily be scuppered, rather than the more favourable alternative..

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  2.  ICE COLD

    I wouldn't Micro Analyze every run. The ECM is decent. Colder air eventually filtering south, with the stubborn Azores high heading right back down towards Africa/ Southern Med.. Plus a lot of cold air to potentially tap into across Scandinavia/ Russia.

    This is a common theme across a fair few models and assembles as we head into mid month.

    Some absolute crackers in the GFS assembles, there's nothing to say one of those runs won't come to fruition!

     

    We are heading in the right direction, people need to look at the big picture rather than hoping for the perfect run from a needle in a haystack (1 run that will likely be much different 12 hours later...)

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  3.   @ICE COLD

    Models are all over the place at the moment with pretty much everything on the table in what is possible for Februrary.

    I think the models will latch on to something interesting within a few days and we will build on that for the next cold/wintry spell.

    Models already showing interest at the 144h range, showing an incoming northerly of some sort. Let's see if this alone can upgrade over the next day or so.  

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  4.   @That ECM

    Yeah I think some cold/blocking early/mid January is quite likely now, but  unfortunately that does not = snow.

    Look at this chart for example:

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    Mostly dry inland untill this feature heads down from the north. You can guarantee if a chart like this came to fruition the mild core in the feature moving south would be much more mild and expansive than shown here 🤣. What can go wrong usually does for Uk when snow chances are concerned.

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  5. So just like that, the chase for cold/snow has officially started again! 😁. A couple days earlier than first thought (referring to my post yesterday.)

    Sometimes all that is needed is a quick scan at the data over a day or so to quickly realise what's coming.

    Cold/ blocking is now 7-10 days away enjoy the chase peeps! 🫣

  6.   @TillyS

    I'm a slight bit more optimistic this morning, Gfs throwing out a few nice runs now in the assembles. 

    This for WestYorkshire doesn't look at all bad:  

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    Mid-Long range heading in right direction.

     

    AO/NAO heading in right direction:

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    With another Canadian warming underway (Which should tip things more in our favour and heading into the important part of an El Nino winter, I see February going only one way and that is Cold/Blocked and Potentially snowy!

    Most indications are showing this to be mid February onwards but I'm hopeful we can sneak something in early February and get it going then. I would say no earlier than the 5th. 

     

    I believe we will be jumping back on the chase next week fully, hopefully, earlier next week than later!

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  7. 21 minutes ago, Aiden2012 said:

    In Driffield atm might’ve been a bad idea full on snow everywhere haha 

    In Driffield atm might’ve been a bad idea full on snow everywhere haha 

    You called it pretty well, got a good hit. 

    Probably be best heading home if ya can't be assed driving anywhere. I think maybe one more decent hit around Whitby soon then it will start to ease off.

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  8. I can't wait for this cold spell to come to an end! Have a week off the weather then come back hopefully for a fresh new chase. A clean slate!

    This cold spell along with Scotland's snow can be sent to the lowest depths of hell, worst cold spell of all time. 

    The worst thing now is I still can't stop looking at radar hoping for something to happen even though there is zero chance 🤪 Insanity of a UK snow chaser!

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  9. I can't wait for this cold spell to come to an end! Have a week off the weather then come back hopefully for a fresh new chase. A clean slate!

    This cold spell along with Scotland's snow can be sent to the lowest depths of hell, worst cold spell of all time. 

    The worst thing now is I still can't stop looking at radar hoping for something to happen even though there is zero chance 🤪 Insanity of a UK snow chaser!

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  10. I think we have learnt a lot from this cold spell, especially no matter how good the charts look nothing is set in stone.

    For me this cold spell has dismissed the notion you need cold soil/ground temperatures for snow to settle (need a good week or two of frosts.) Almost down to sea level in Liverpool the snow settled yesterday morning, even after all the mild dross we have had already most of this winter. Only did it melt once the temperature rose above freezing.

    I say from now on we need 

    1. The battleground snow with heavy long lasting precipitation with evaporative cooling coming in to play. 

    2. The beast from the east -10-15 uppers with showers feeding in from the east with no high ground eating them up. 

    Anything else away from Northern Scotland will just be standard winter fare, with disappointments easy to come by!

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