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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

A quick look at this evening's anomalies as the interesting pattern change gets underway.

In the 6-10 range they are all more or less on the same page. Upstream there is a vortex lobe over Russia and a trough in the eastern Pacific with ridging in west North America and a weakening Canadian vortex. Although not strictly upstream the west European ridge is extending into the Arctic and northern Greenland. This is quite critical because one of the reasons that the Canadian vortex is weakening is that a lobe has shot of east via the channel over southern Greenland and the high pressure pushing north in the western Atlantic. The movement east of the lobe to a position north of the UK with the associated trough just to the east of the latter greatly facilitated by a very strong jet running out of the eastern seaboard and around the aforementioned high pressure and south of Greenland and down towards the UK. This portends a north westerly upper flow with some very wintry conditions and temps a fair bit below average over the UK. The usual caveats apply.

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I'm a bit wary about going much further ahead although the is still fair agreement without there being a huge change upstream. The east Pacific ridge has nudged into western North America and the Canadian lobe is getting some credibility back but the upper flow across the Atlantic is flatter and thus more westerly as the amplification diminishes..The percentage play is still unsettled with temps a little below average.

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Posted
  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
13 minutes ago, Matthew. said:

Do we enjoy the next 3 days and run for cover? Yesterday was lovely

Let's put it this way. the Last couple of days have been great (a quick view down the local country park and Sidney's domain) but a transition over the weekend to colder and windier conditions is a certainty.

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Posted
  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The ext EPS means seem to promoting the idea of the lobe/trough slipping east and promoting what would probable be a temporary ridging by the Azores and thus the temps approaching near average once more. Perhaps an indication that the intrusion by the rogue chunk of the vortex will be just a blip. Just saying.

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Posted
  • Location: Binfield, Berkshire
  • Location: Binfield, Berkshire

I really don’t see anything very exciting for many next week. Yes, the favoured spots will do well, but if you look at the south, temperatures will only be a little below normal. Yes, if we get showers, the temperatures will drop, but it’s hardly looking like Narnia as many in the MOD thread would lead you to believe ?

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  • Location: Gourock, Scotland
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms, Severe Gales, Hot & Sunny or Cold & Sunny!
  • Location: Gourock, Scotland

Well Monday night through Tuesday is looking like fun here - this is what Winter is all about for a snow lover! Frequent lightning and blizzards also? Oh go on then! :yahoo:

 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

One has to say the latest EC46 update is encouraging with another pattern change towards the end of January and the first fortnight of Feb. as the Azores HP becomes more influential with the weather becoming more settled and temps around normal

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  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hoar Frost, Snow, Misty Autumn mornings
  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL

One of these days I'm going to move to Favoured Spots.

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  • Location: Tonbridge Kent
  • Location: Tonbridge Kent

Some wintry charts beginning to show within reliable timeframe.

But, I really can't see this first push of cold air being more potent than last Decembers!

-8/-10 850's in December

-5 850's next week (and these will almost certainly be moderated)

Yes, there will be heavy snow showers in Scotland, Northern Ireland, NW England and North Wales especially locations above 200 metres.

But further South surely just cold rain, hail or sleet with temperatures around 5c/7c?

Granted, it will 'feel' really cold everywhere because of the wind chill.

After that, potent North Easterly or Easterly, I anticipate further heartbreak! 

Really hope that I'm wrong!

 

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  • Location: Home Kettering. Work Somerset.
  • Location: Home Kettering. Work Somerset.

I think by next Friday, it will be one degree less than it currently is, here in Somerset. 

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  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
1 hour ago, snowblizzard said:

Some wintry charts beginning to show within reliable timeframe.

But, I really can't see this first push of cold air being more potent than last Decembers!

-8/-10 850's in December

-5 850's next week (and these will almost certainly be moderated)

Yes, there will be heavy snow showers in Scotland, Northern Ireland, NW England and North Wales especially locations above 200 metres.

But further South surely just cold rain, hail or sleet with temperatures around 5c/7c?

Granted, it will 'feel' really cold everywhere because of the wind chill.

After that, potent North Easterly or Easterly, I anticipate further heartbreak! 

Really hope that I'm wrong!

 

Last December was a maritime Arctic outbreak next week is a Maritime polar outbreak,that’s why the hpa is higher,big difference in the air masses.

Amazes me a certain poster in the MOD doesn’t realise that,when they keep saying not as cold as the December snowy spell.Different air-mass that’s why :acute:

 

 

 

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  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast

@Bring Back1962-63 (and forum administrator ) regarding the font size, those big fonts look horrible on mobile (especially in portrait) but good on wide-screen laptop, in fact the normal font looks horrible on wide-screen the default font looks horrible and sentences are way too long, running almost from edge to edge with way too little onscreen margin. But I guess most people read on mobile  nowadays... 

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
3 hours ago, ArHu3 said:

@Bring Back1962-63 (and forum administrator ) regarding the font size, those big fonts look horrible on mobile (especially in portrait) but good on wide-screen laptop, in fact the normal font looks horrible on wide-screen the default font looks horrible and sentences are way too long, running almost from edge to edge with way too little onscreen margin. But I guess most people read on mobile  nowadays... 

Well I certainly don't, I have a real phone, Nokia 6310i

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  • Location: Linslade, Beds
  • Weather Preferences: Deep cold
  • Location: Linslade, Beds

As previously stated, the Azure’s HP becomes more influential later on in the month ??

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Posted
  • Location: Marton
  • Location: Marton
4 hours ago, knocker said:

Who would have believed it. The chunk of the vortex turns into a massive slider. Oh my sainted aunt.

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I suppose there’s nothing we can do about it as it’s in the reliable:( p9 doesn’t look too bad for a weeks time

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Posted
  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam

Looking at past developing lows tracking across UK in cold PM flows

Burns' Day storm of 1990

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20th December 1993, gave a snowfall across north Wales, north Midlands, southern parts of northern England

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Late January 1995, this gave a big snowfall across parts of Yorkshire, Interesting that the 850hpas don't look that chilly over the Yorkshire region

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2nd to 3rd March 1995 gave a snowfall across, Wales, Midlands and East Anglia

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Early January 1998

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16th December 2011

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As recent as this time last year

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.

The 1995 March one was good, - in Birmingham about 5 inches fell which lasted a while because of a pretty protracted cold spell afterwards - also the Jan 1995 one didn't do anything for me but I distinctly remember on the news hearing that in Leeds 3 inches fell in 20 minutes - that must have been quite spectacular, you mustn't have been able to see anything apart from white in front of your face.

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  • Location: Stoke Gifford, nr Bristol, SGlos
  • Location: Stoke Gifford, nr Bristol, SGlos

Typical UK winter fare next week. North/South split. Windy, cold(ish), rain in South; sleet/snow at times in North with accums on high ground.

Nowt to write home about and certainly not "epic". Later in the month? Who knows if real cold and snow to wider areas will happen?

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