Fi Eye Candy

[chionomaniac]

Let's see the best FI Eye Candy that the GFS and ECM can come up with over the coming months and save it for posterity.

Don't clog up the model thread up with charts that are highly unlikely to verify - put them in here. All charts post T+180 are welcome.

I'll start the ball rolling:

12Z GFS T+360

[Cloud 10]

Good idea for a thread,could do with some eye candy at the moment.

Just rolling back to last year,and very occasionally FI can be quite close to the mark!

[Robbie Garrett]

History repeats itself, in 2011

[SnowObsessor90]

Eye candy that was indeed.

[Snowmad79]

Deep FI on this mornings 00z is cold and shows for a second day a ridge in the Atlantic, developing GL High, trough over us/ NW europe and a beefy LP cell draggin down the colder air. Not potent cold but would be nice if this continues or remerges towards or in the reliable.

Even if we had to bank on Topplers for our cold this winter I'm still confident my area will see some decent snowfall at somepoint through winter and this is despite the reliable time frame of the late runs making me downbeat. Tbh I cant remember a totally snowless winter in this part of Oldham where I've lived for 32 yrs.

[Radiating Dendrite]

Don't you just love a blocked Atlantic!

[lorenzo]

Deep FI on this mornings 00z is cold and shows for a second day a ridge in the Atlantic, developing GL High, trough over us/ NW europe and a beefy LP cell draggin down the colder air. Not potent cold but would be nice if this continues or remerges towards or in the reliable.

Even if we had to bank on Topplers for our cold this winter I'm still confident my area will see some decent snowfall at somepoint through winter and this is despite the reliable time frame of the late runs making me downbeat. Tbh I cant remember a totally snowless winter in this part of Oldham where I've lived for 32 yrs.

Thats the chart I spied this morning also - welcome to December !

[Gavin Hannah]

Thats the chart I spied this morning also - welcome to December !

Drooling over that bit of FI teasing us haha!

Quite enjoying this one also.

Edited November 17, 2011 by MadSnowboarder

[Kentish Kiwi]

Very good idea for a thread. Will hopefully help clean up the main MOD thread too.

Just a thought Chiono, do you think you could possibly edit your original post to ask people to include 850hPa temperatures too if possible? It's always a little frustrating looking back at posted charts and not having a clue what the cold pooling is like and if it is actually as good as the pressure makes it out to be; the colours associated with the heights often mislead people into thinking they are a direct translation to temperature.

[chionomaniac]

Very good idea for a thread. Will hopefully help clean up the main MOD thread too.

Just a thought Chiono, do you think you could possibly edit your original post to ask people to include 850hPa temperatures too if possible? It's always a little frustrating looking back at posted charts and not having a clue what the cold pooling is like and if it is actually as good as the pressure makes it out to be; the colours associated with the heights often mislead people into thinking they are a direct translation to temperature.

I agree with the 850's but can no longer edit my first post!

[Gavin Hannah]

The latest GFS Beauts!

[sundog]

The latest GFS Beauts!

The gfs chart kind of reminds me of the short cold spell we had at the end of Nov 2009

Edited November 19, 2011 by sundog

[lorenzo]

[Cutty Dyer]

Here's my optimistic offering...

[Isolated Frost]

Here's my optimistic offering...

With lp that close, uppers wouldn't deliver snow below 500m. Uppers are -3c/-4c at their coldest on that frame I think.

[Snowmad79]

With lp that close, uppers wouldn't deliver snow below 500m. Uppers are -3c/-4c at their coldest on that frame I think.

True, thicknesses and due points away from the Scottish mountains wouldn't be consudive either but... lets get the chill factor going first, snow will come later. Max temps on that GFS run this morning for the north of the midlands showed 1 day where temps get to 7 or 8c and lows of -1c. Most days struggling to get above 5c away from the coasts and the far south & east of the country, so would defo feel nippy for most according to the 00z GFS (T84 through to the end of the run which finished on a slack easterly flow).

[Cutty Dyer]

I'm dreaming of a.... :smilz38:

[Gavin Hannah]

I'm dreaming of a.... :smilz38:

25th Dec!!! lol. Well and truely FIEye candy. Nice.

[Harps]

Another nice one for Christmas Day!

[Radiating Dendrite]

Eye candy! I think that is more pornography!

[Kentish Kiwi]

I'm dreaming of a.... :smilz38:

To be honest, this isn't even a particularly good chart as far as extreme FI eye candy goes. Complete lack of heights to our north. Not sure what the cold pooling over the UK would be like either...

Edited November 25, 2011 by Kentish Kiwi

[chionomaniac]

Desperation states KK!1

[summer blizzard]

KK is correct, while it is nice on the face of it the flow does not lend itself to significantly cold air.

[feb1991blizzard]

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.php?code=5&ech=228&mode=0&runpara=0

[snowlover2009]

Only one place where this has to go and its this thread. Wow:

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20111127/18/189/ukmaxtemp.png

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20111127/18/189/h500slp.png

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20111127/18/189/h850t850eu.png

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20111127/18/189/6hrprecip.png

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20111127/18/189/prectypeuktopo.png Probably snow over high ground or to low levels at times.

But wow, the biggest snow storm ever. I would love this to happen! It is rare to get a perfect synoptic like this, to get snow, with a low tracking south of the uk and bring all that precipitation and wind, along with cold temperatures and cold uppers for snow.