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  • Location: Nuneaton,Warks. 128m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow then clear and frosty.
  • Location: Nuneaton,Warks. 128m asl
3 minutes ago, Dominic Carey said:

So do we bin GFS after a certain point?

Beyond day 4 it can show more of a bias to a flatter pattern putting more emphasis on energy into the northern arm of the jet.If it is wrong early on then the later pattern can look completely different compared to other models.This can flatten a possible Scandi high into a Euro high.Not saying it's wrong all the time but it is something we become aware of after following the models for a time.This is more noticeable now where we don't have a straightforward zonal pattern. 

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

By 192 you would be very hard pressed to find any kind of Easterly flow within GFS ensembles, just a couple or so.

That said, a couple of days ago you would of been very hard pressed to see any building a ridge. 

If we do get something closer to ECM this will have been a very poor spell for the GFS model.

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
13 minutes ago, pyrotech said:

Thing is Nick, as many long timers on here have seen time and time again its the same story with GFS

It showed this cold spell at 15 days, run with it then it dropped it and went for a new route and something completely different only to slowly return to it again late on .

How many times have we seen the GFS find the correct trend and drop it when ECM comes into timeframe and the GFS slowly try to catch the ECM up again.

 

Well its a bit like model musical chairs! I know we like to use the GFS as a piñata sometimes but all models have good and bad spells. I'm very interested to see what the ECM has to say, so far its wanted the cleanest evolution to the easterly. At this point we still don't know what the correct solution might be.

The NCEP diagnostic discussion:

CYCLONIC FLOW/SHORTWAVES SINKING ACROSS NORTHERN PLAINS
ASSOCIATED FLAT SURFACE WAVE ACROSS GREAT LAKES EARLY THURS
SURFACE WAVE CURVING THROUGH THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES EARLY THURSDAY

SO OVERALL...THE 00Z ECMWF APPEARS TO BE THE BEST FIT OVERALL TO
THE PREFERENCE AT ALL FORECAST HOURS...BUT THERE ARE TIMES THE 00Z
CMC/12Z GFS AND 00Z UKMET LOOK REASONABLE. CONFIDENCE IS ONLY
AVERAGE GIVEN MODEST CHANGES FROM RUN TO RUN AND MODERATE ENSEMBLE
SPREAD.
 

This was the subject of all that drama with the upstream pattern in that area and the knock on effect into the Atlantic.
 

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Superb set of charts today so many options good, bad, ugly.. 

My favourite of course would be the ecm with its love affair with cold.  (no bad thing)  we await in anticipation for the next run from the ecm this evening.. 

Although don't know why we are focusing so much attention past Saturday we got the best wintry spell knocking on our door for years tomorrow.. 

Ohhhhhhh snow. 

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  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Varied and not extreme.
  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
12 minutes ago, phil nw. said:

Beyond day 4 it can show more of a bias to a flatter pattern putting more emphasis on energy into the northern arm of the jet.If it is wrong early on then the later pattern can look completely different compared to other models.This can flatten a possible Scandi high into a Euro high.Not saying it's wrong all the time but it is something we become aware of after following the models for a time.This is more noticeable now where we don't have a straightforward zonal pattern. 

FWIW, I always think the GFS is better at picking-out a return to zonality before the other NWP models, but, as you say, is often reluctant to show cold weather and tends to blast cold Eurasian airmasses from the map as soon as any energy leaves the eastern seaboard of the US.

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Correcting typo.
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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
3 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

FWIW, I always think the GFS is better at picking-out a return to zonality before the other NWP models, but, as you say, is often reluctant to show cold weather and tends to blast cold Eurasian airmasses from the map as soon as any energy leaves the eastern seaboard of the US.

That's because it always does it and zonality is our default weather pattern 

 

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

UKMO and GFS fairly similar at T144. It's more of a question how much energy goes to the north sinking the high. The GFS solution would probably leave us with grey skies and drizzle. yuk.

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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

Massive Ecm coming up, it's been another dramatic day so far and I honestly can't remember a better looking ecm than this morning but could it reach those dizzy heights again?.. this is a test for the ecm, it's led us (coldies) up the garden path countless times but hopefully not this time!

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  • Location: Lowestoft, Suffolk
  • Weather Preferences: Warm Summers, Snowy Winters
  • Location: Lowestoft, Suffolk
11 minutes ago, radiohead said:

12Z shows heavy snow with 85-90 km/h gusts there at 66 hours. -5 to -7 windchill. Very wintry! If that happens....

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I hope that doesn't clash with a spring tide. That has tidal surge written all over it. Full moon the day before as well.

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  • Location: Morecambe
  • Location: Morecambe
5 minutes ago, Frosty. said:

Massive Ecm coming up, it's been another dramatic day so far and I honestly can't remember a better looking ecm than this morning but could it reach those dizzy heights again?.. this is a test for the ecm, it's led us (coldies) up the garden path countless times but hopefully not this time!

Why is it a "massive" ECM coming up? Whatever the ECM shows mean very little regarding the possible easterly because of the timeframe but the signal for some sort of continental flow is increasing. The GFS does seem to be closer to the mark of trying to flatten the pattern initially(the UKMO at 96 hours threatens to show this) but looks like as per usual its too progressive to bringing the Atlantic in.

So it could be a case of a brief milder period for some before turning colder again? Although the further East you are, the more likely the cold air might hang on however if this mornings ECM is right then only the far North West will see a brief milder period and the majority of the UK will stay in the cold air throughout. Will be interesting what tonights ECM brings but its nothing decesive either way.

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  • Location: lowestoft
  • Location: lowestoft
1 minute ago, Ian Suffolk said:

I hope that doesn't clash with a spring tide. That has tidal surge written all over it.

Hi Ian, i have been watching developments since last week.

Yes it will coincide with high spring tides, serious flooding to be expected if this happens

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  • Location: Surrey and SW France.
  • Location: Surrey and SW France.
8 minutes ago, nick sussex said:

Thanks Tamara

I was trying to think back to a similar type scenario. OMG now I feel even older if that was 2012, the years are flying by! That spell saw some incredibly cold air down here, even further north in Bordeaux parts of the river started freezing over.

Yes, I see the similarity too ... why I've been looking out the thermals. :cold:

Heavy snow followed by a two week freeze and -17C overnight as the coldest. It's great but our house is not well enough insulated for that on a prolonged basis.

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  • Location: Bramley, Leeds: 100m (328ft)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow.
  • Location: Bramley, Leeds: 100m (328ft)
8 minutes ago, Ian Suffolk said:

I hope that doesn't clash with a spring tide. That has tidal surge written all over it. Full moon the day before as well.

East coast (Hull) has spring tide at 6am.

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  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Varied and not extreme.
  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
Just now, phil nw. said:

As Nick S posted above the main 2 can both have their good and bad spells.We have observed the ECM's tendency to inflate ridges days 8-10 sometimes- which of course can increase expectations,re cold.

It's not easy this model viewing sometimes.that's why we need to view all the outputs,ens,clusters and anomalies,means to arrive at the most likely outlook.

 

 

Agreed; just as the GFS likes to underplay blocking and push aside cold airmasses unrealistically rapidly, I've come to learn that the ECM can overplay blocking at longer range.  I do, however, think that, in much the same way that the GFS can often pick up on renewed zonality at longer range, the ECM can do the same with blocking.

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  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Gales, frost, fog & snow
  • Location: Longwell Green, near Bristol

12z EURO4 doesn't give the southerners much optimism with regards to snowfall on Thursday.  All the wrong side of marginal really;

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  • Location: Basque Country - Northern Spain
  • Location: Basque Country - Northern Spain

It's interesting to see almost 8000 people currently watching the ECM at Meteociel

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  • Location: Cardiff, Wales
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunder & Lightning, Thundersnow, Storms, Heatwave
  • Location: Cardiff, Wales

Regarding Thursday and potential snow for south, ECM doesn't have the colder air as far south as GFS for midday. 

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