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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
Just now, Connor Bailey Degnan said:

Ecm is absolutely dreadful for anyone wanting snow tonight. Wonder where it sits within its ens later. Mild outlier? Or a new trend?

Similar to GEFS ENS 1, that's a horror

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  • Location: Cork City(Southern Ireland)
  • Location: Cork City(Southern Ireland)

Well I won't be writing off the ecm and it's perfectly plausible...It has thrashed the other models all winter. If you had one bet to save your life it would be a blend of the big 3 aka very cold but dry

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  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
  • Weather Preferences: Hot n cold
  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
1 minute ago, January Snowstorm said:

Well I won't be writing off the ecm and it's perfectly plausible...It has thrashed the other models all winter. If you had one bet to save your life it would be a blend of the big 3 aka very cold but dry

No it hasn't thrashed them at all !

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  • Location: Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, freezes, bitterly cold and icy. Thunderstorms and heatwaves!
  • Location: Lincolnshire
3 minutes ago, Frosty. said:

Ecm 12z upgrade, it looks colder than the 00z later in the week!:cold:looking forward to this, hopefully we will see snow showers from the north sea too!

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I'm sorry mate, this is not an upgrade, not by a long shot

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  • Location: Brighton, East Sussex
  • Location: Brighton, East Sussex

Dreadful ECM! That 168 chart is a horror show from the starting position we have, hopefully just an outlier!

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  • Location: South Petherton 41 metres (134 feet)
  • Location: South Petherton 41 metres (134 feet)

Why is there negativity you only have to read the met office further outlook and read what the experts like Ian f have put on twitter today, A cold spell is coming with some snow flurries better than mild and a  Fairly long cold block. 

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  • Location: Siston, Bristol 70m ASL
  • Location: Siston, Bristol 70m ASL
2 minutes ago, January Snowstorm said:

Well I won't be writing off the ecm and it's perfectly plausible...It has thrashed the other models all winter. If you had one bet to save your life it would be a blend of the big 3 aka very cold but dry

Whilst it has the best verification stats its been poor the last few weeks, whilst the UKMO has been very consistent I won't be pulling the shotgun until the UKMO follows the ECM

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Plus lets see where the ENS are at 144h its going to be interesting 

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
Just now, swilliam said:

????? - It is nothing like it all.

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I know it's nothing like it, but I was quoting the post that said ECM is very bad for cold/snow, another example is GEFS 1

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17 minutes ago, January Snowstorm said:

Well I won't be writing off the ecm and it's perfectly plausible...It has thrashed the other models all winter. If you had one bet to save your life it would be a blend of the big 3 aka very cold but dry

Maybe you missed yesterday post- in this evolution its been awful proved by all 3 models for 5 days...

UKMO leading the way - however yes we cant write it totally off..

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  • Location: West Kingsdown Kent
  • Location: West Kingsdown Kent
1 minute ago, Steve Murr said:

Maybe you missed yesterday post- in this evolution its been awful proved by all 3 models for 5 days...

Yes very true whatever it shows at 5 days does not happen, so all good on ecm front. Unless it shows what other models do I suppose.

 

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Winter Snow, extreme weather, mainly sunny mild summers though.
  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Ohhhh dear, this is really awful from ECM. Springtime arrives early.....again.

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  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL

Has anyone posted the UKMO day 7 chart yet - it's nice at 144 but you can't really see if it goes pear shaped in the next key day!!

If the ECM lies in the middle of the EPS I'd be concerned but not so just yet. However it is plausible, and est not write it off. The good thing now is that the METO wording sounds nothing like the ECM next weekend.

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  • Location: New Forest (Western)
  • Weather Preferences: Fascinated by extreme weather. Despise drizzle.
  • Location: New Forest (Western)

ECM is so out of line with the background signals, the Met Office indications toward the weekend... everything.

UKMO is quite similar with the broader pattern which is why I have my concerns about the fast cut-off and jet being able to take a straight route over the top of the block - but surely the upstream forcing should prevent the jet establishing a continuous strong section that rapidly sinks the block such as ECM shows. Right?

There's something fishy going on but is it with the model or what we're actually headed for?

When it comes down to it we have vastly different flow and temperature configurations as early as day 4 so we really are in a messed up situation for the time being.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Location: Dorset

If you focus in where the 955mb low is then you can see a fall of 75mb in 48 hrs. That's pretty remarkable. It is possible, but likely given the forcing mechanism in play? Not really imho. 

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  • Location: Siston, Bristol 70m ASL
  • Location: Siston, Bristol 70m ASL
1 minute ago, snowray said:

Ohhhh dear, this is really awful from ECM. Springtime arrives early.....again.

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Its going to be very clear where this sits in its ensembles later so should tell us whether its a new trend or a complete outliner|! 

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  • Location: North Norfolk
  • Location: North Norfolk
10 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

& thats where we leave the ECM tonight - Just the same as the last 5 days to much forward energy @ day 6....

 

Hi Steve,

Always enjoy reading your analysis. Surely though ECMWF is picking up on something so can't be completely discounted? I thought ECMWF was better for modelling of scandi heights? It has more energy in the northern arm of the jet which results in the high sinking.  It's out of synch with other models yes but until they all come on board, it must be taken seriously? We've all been here before so we surely do need to see the ECMWF align before we get too excited at 144 and beyond..?

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

For those wondering how some areas managed to get freezing rain in January 1987, it's because when the snow showers off the North Sea were replaced by more continuous precipitation, a pool of milder air rose above the exceptionally cold air near the surface.  With 850hPa temperatures of around -2C, there was probably a shallow zone of >0C temperatures somewhere around the 850hPa level (plus or minus about 50hPa) which caused rain, and then when this fell into surface air temperatures of about -5C, freezing rain was the result.

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I think the main issue during this coming week will be a relative lack of cold pooling over the continent and modification from the North Sea.  I envisage a lot of stratocumulus and scattered light flurries of sleet or snow (perhaps even rain near the east coast), mainly in eastern areas from the Wash northwards, unless we can get a pronounced trough in the easterly flow as per UKMO T+144.  The forecast Skew-T for East Lothian, just after the easterly is forecast to come in, indicates shallow convection, reaching a dry lid at about 800hPa:

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For widespread/significant snow showers I'd be looking for convection getting up to around 700hPa as happened on 11 March 2013.

 

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