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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
25 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

OOOOOOO matron ,the 18z brings the 564 DAM line into the UK next week, i would imagine some very warm/hot surface conditions across the SE and not exclusively the SE.

Hopefully some storms thrown in for good measure!!

Wouldn't it be nice to have summer warmth, the Gfs 18z says yes:shok:

 

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North

Not a happy ending though:closedeyes:

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Today a mainly north westerly regime with some showers developing PM mainly in the north. The weekend sees a front moving SE on Saturday so generally the weather will be rather cloudy and cool. At the beginning of next week a ridge moves in from the SW which briefly collapses on Tuesday as a frontal system moves SE and fragments but temps have picked up a tad. For the rest of the week a ridge of HP in the Atlantic moves east bringing some mainly dry weather. Temps a little above average but dipping below by the end of the week. The gospel according to this morning's GFS but not written on stone like the tablet so it comes with a health warning.

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK

Excellent looking UKMO this morning - turning hot, humid and thundery by midweek! Mid to high twenties on offer, not a long lasting affair by any means, but certainly potential for some fireworks!

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The GEFS anomaly this morning is still pushing height rises mid Atlantic but also severely weakening the anomalous trough which leaves some interesting possibilities vis the UK as the upper flow gets weaker. The percentage play would be the usual N/S split.But nNo point in making snap judgments regarding this so best follow the GEFs and the other two for a couple of days.

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK

Excellent ECM too this morning! Singing from exactly the same page as the UKMO, and looking very similar at 120-144 hours. 850s of 16-17c in the south by Wednesday, and the warm air never gets shifted out once it arrives Saturday.....could be looking at 5 days of warmth now. Wednesday looking VERY interesting with low pressure scooping that hot air our way...massive TS potential. :D

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

UKMO and ECM very close at t144 hot and humid with some big thunderstorms developing I would imagine

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  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and 15-25c
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
9 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

UKMO and ECM very close at t144 hot and humid with some big thunderstorms developing I would imagine

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Could this be our 3 obligatory hot days and a thunderstorm then summer is over?..dont see it on the GFS 06hrs though?

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
17 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

Could this be our 3 obligatory hot days and a thunderstorm then summer is over?..dont see it on the GFS 06hrs though?

To be fair Monday is warm, Tuesday is hot and the rest of the week is average. But at the moment 48 hours is a lifetime when it comes to the models and we are talking a week away.:shok: Sidney is not counting his nuts as yet but I'm away to check.

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
8 minutes ago, knocker said:

To be fair Monday is warm, Tuesday is hot and the rest of the week is average. But at the moment 48 hours is a lifetime when it comes to the models and we are talking a week away.:shok: Sidney is not counting his nuts as yet but I'm away to check.

Wednesday has the potential to be hot too on all main models, but it will all be about timing and local differences - Camborne probably least favoured for heat on that day

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL

Not impressed with the euro models this morning, they want to bring a trough over us and build heights across northern latitudes- no thanks!

GFS and GEFS much better for longer lasting summer weather- yes please!

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
7 minutes ago, Man With Beard said:

Wednesday has the potential to be hot too on all main models, but it will all be about timing and local differences - Camborne probably least favoured for heat on that day

I thought 'potential' was in the swear filter has it escaped? I was just quoting this morning's ecm which has hot localised Lincolnshire and East Anglia for Wednesday the rest of the country average. In any case people as usual are forgetting the north and Scotland where the heat doesn't apply. potential or not.

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK

I'm happier that the best 2 models are showing the same....but as knocker says, we've had massive changes every day for the last week, so we can't take anything for granted yet. That heat is on a knife edge, and a small change could easily keep it south in France. One to watch.

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
15 minutes ago, Man With Beard said:

Camborne probably least favoured for heat on that day

made me laugh:shok::D

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans

gfs impressed me last week and if things continue to trend as they are for next week then gem gets a gold star.  certainly seems as though the general westerly flow is drifting further north as the Azores ridge exerts itself in pulses.  Note the gefs keen on a return of the upper trough across the whole country in two weeks.  

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
1 minute ago, bluearmy said:

gfs impressed me last week and if things continue to trend as they are for next week then gem gets a gold star.  certainly seems as though the general westerly flow is drifting further north as the Azores ridge exerts itself in pulses.  Note the gefs keen on a return of the upper trough across the whole country in two weeks.  

The ecm 0z operational seems keen to bring a slow moving trough through next week and build heights across northern lats Blue- not a trend i was expecting to see after viewing exeters musings yesterday- outlier? Hope so as thats not what heat lovers want to see after frankly, another dreadful summer so far...

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1 hour ago, Man With Beard said:

Wednesday has the potential to be hot too on all main models, but it will all be about timing and local differences - Camborne probably least favoured for heat on that day

Going up Camborne Hill coming down......don't worry, Knocker will get it:)

Welcome (at least from my perspective) signs of something warmer and initially drier next week, especially for England and Wales, with HP building in and then trying to hang on by the skin of it's teeth according to GFS. ECM and UKMO clearly go for a slightly different take on things, with much warmer air pumping up from the continent for a time early next week, before eventually it all goes bang. Whichever way you slice it things should become warmer generally and even very warm locally, but the pattern change required to bring a lengthy spell of settled weather still looks as far away as ever imo. 

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North

Sensational ukmo 00z with continental heat wafting northwestwards into the UK, fab! :- )

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans

Re the gefs upper trough - the extended eps are pretty dire with an upper trough becoming established in the 10/15 day period aswell. Mid Atlantic upper ridge in association with development of Greenland high anomoly.  not a great place to be for late July.  Make the most of next weeks heat ! (If it verifies)

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
13 minutes ago, bluearmy said:

Re the gefs upper trough - the extended eps are pretty dire with an upper trough becoming established in the 10/15 day period aswell. Mid Atlantic upper ridge in association with development of Greenland high anomoly.  not a great place to be for late July.  Make the most of next weeks heat ! (If it verifies)

Yes that was concerning me from last evening's run. In the meantime

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
1 hour ago, Man With Beard said:

What a very good idea. So much better to do this type of research than try to use ones' memory. I have not had time yet to have a closer look but IF you can find time to do it for the 12z as well?. Even more to ask if you could do this routinely then it would be a big help in checking outputs at T+144, a lot to ask I know. Over the winter I can imagine it being a huge help in putting some factual evidence forward to try and counter the hype we see so much more of in winter.

Thank you again.

 

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North

As mean charts go for mid summer, the Ecm 00z ens mean is impressive for warmth, dare i say heat even, into next week with very warm, hot sunshine, increasing humidity and a chance of thunderstorms too.:)

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
1 hour ago, Man With Beard said:

Having recently been challenged to provide more evidence for my ideas (!), I have done what I do not think anyone on here has done before - a mini-study on the accuracy on the GFS and ECM, specifically relating to the UK. Please have a look at the attached PDF - any comments would be gratefully received, as I would like to extend this study when I get time later in the year. It was done in rather a rush, so feel free to point out any errors I have made.

A summary of my findings, which cover the T144 modelling of Central England by the GFS and ECM 00Z runs for June 2016:

-          Overall, the GFS was slightly more accurate than the ECM

-          The errors made by the GFS were almost entirely due to overestimating heights. The errors made by ECM were more evenly spread between overestimates and underestimates

-          The ECM was slightly more likely to make bigger errors than the GFS (insignificant difference, though)

-          The ECM made no errors at all for “trough” dominated days

 

GFS ECM 00Z Comparison for June 2016.pdf

Firstly I think it's highly commendable that you have gone to the trouble and effort to do this but one observation that springs to mind. Is taking a specific location really representative? By this I mean if you used two other locations, say the north of Scotland and south east England would the results be the same? This is not meant as a criticism because I think this sort of comparison is extremely complex and difficult. Ideally one would probably need two or three time frames as well.

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