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  • Location: Surrey and SW France.
  • Location: Surrey and SW France.

Going off what the 0z ECM did pick up I would hardly suggest it correctly saw this system at all

 

I would say that the model did well, just a little further west- CF the 15Z model frame with the WV satellite for same time.

 

rD2l1LV.png  seviri_nat_wv_low_20150129_1500.png

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  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)

I would say that the model did well, just a little further west- CF the 15Z model frame with the WV satellite for same time.

 

rD2l1LV.png  seviri_nat_wv_low_20150129_1500.png

 

Better for most being a little further east as any precip associated will be more likely to effect some rather than just being over the sea

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  • Location: Manchester
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in the Summer, cold and snowy in the winter, simples!
  • Location: Manchester

So if a polar low can't be modelled

 

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What is GFS modelling SE top of Iceland?

Call it an embedded shortwave trough if you like but really isn't it the model trying to predict instability and would it not be potentially a polar low?

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  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms
  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.

Wait, so this is actually a Polar Low?! I thought it was just the low pressure that is being shown on the GFS charts?

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  • Location: Maltby, Rotherham - 150m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Cold! Winter :)
  • Location: Maltby, Rotherham - 150m ASL

can i just ask why its not predicted to survive coming south? Im not really clued up on polar lows. Do they by nature just appear and dissapear quickly? A bit like tornadoes do (but obv PL a bit longer)

If the track is down the Irish sea then isnt that good? The 'warm' water and cold air above? Like lake effect snow? Id have thought it would keep its strength. But its all a learning curve for me :)

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  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and storms
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.

Surely by definition Chino, if it's been around long enough to be picked up on the 0z ECM, it is definitely not a Polar low?

I don't see why they have to be completely unforecastable,  just because they previously were? The models should be able to pick up where lows (polar origin) are likely to form and then create a path for them. Well done to the ECM if it has. 

 

It looks, tastes, smells, is in the correct area and thicknesses and acts like a polar low but isn't until a met says so? No, I still think it is.

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

It was back in the day (say 10 years ago) improbable for a model to forecast a Polar Low, but I would suggest they've got better at handling it. I recall a Polar Low a fair few year back, which was pretty well forecast by model outputs, around 12 hours out (from it's conception).. so models can forecast these.. what they ECM shows is a Polar Low losing energy and becoming a trough as it moves south.. though it's position might be anywhere.

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  • Location: Batley, West Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Heat and Snow
  • Location: Batley, West Yorkshire

I'm thinking I may split the polar low discussion out into it's own thread, as it looks like an interesting one to watch and track!

 

Cheers Paul.

 

I'm assuming this would give some impressive accumulations!

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

Wait, so this is actually a Polar Low?! I thought it was just the low pressure that is being shown on the GFS charts?

 No that's just west of the Norwegian coast.

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  • Location: Savoy Circus W10 / W3
  • Location: Savoy Circus W10 / W3

I would say that the model did well, just a little further west- CF the 15Z model frame with the WV satellite for same time.

 

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It initialised a low fairly well locationally but I was more reffering what it does with it in the second output chart you posted.. as in treatment of down the line. In those charts it really makes nothing of the low at all

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire

The ECM definitely picked this feature up.

 

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  • Location: Freshwater Isle of Wight
  • Location: Freshwater Isle of Wight

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/bracka.gif

 

The Met O have analysed a low to NW of Scotland at 12Z and the plotted chart shows an opening of the isobars over NW Scotland.

http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map.php?date=0〈=en&map=UK&size=large

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  • Location: Marlborough, North East Wiltshire 143M/469ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and snow in the winter, warm and dry in the summer !
  • Location: Marlborough, North East Wiltshire 143M/469ft ASL

Thanks, could be an interesting evening especially as I am located on the predicted northern flank of this!

 

Thanks for the link to the satellite animations as well, great to watch.

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

when was the last time a polar low occured and how rare are they?

 The last one I remember myself was one from about 2001-2002.. it was decaying as it moved down but still gave a slightly covering in the form of showers. Other than that 1995 would be the last major one.. giving almost a foot of snow here, along with incredible night thunderstorm.

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  • Location: Hoyland, South Yorkshire 160m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: cold,snowy,frosty and thunderstorms
  • Location: Hoyland, South Yorkshire 160m ASL

what is the predicted track of this please, if anyone knows lol :)

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire

what is the predicted track of this please, if anyone knows lol :)

 

It will move down the western side of the UK into Wales and the SW overnight, but give predominantly rain or sleet, with snow mostly reserved for higher ground.

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