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Posted
  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts
  • Weather Preferences: Snow snow and snow
  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts
13 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Been one of the best things I've done, joining this forum! You just never stop learning, and there's always things to talk about and keep you busy! Whether it be snow and blizzards or supercells and MCS's! 

Seen some mad roller coaster rides in here over the years both containing tears of joy and frustration! 2012/13 had to be up there as the best, regarding the failed Dec 2012 easterly but a recovery during the next month. 

One thing for sure is that you will learn so much in here if you visit frequently :) 

anyway, a further upgrade on the 18z and dare I say it, a greenie high! 

Yep...been on here over ten year and enjoyed it lots amid some joy and lots of disappointment. Done a lot of learning but not to a degree where I would presume to tell those on here I respect that they were talking out their wotsits, like the post I replied to seemed to allude to! 

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  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
1 minute ago, NorthNorfolkWeather said:

No AB I think you are wrong

until we get proper verification of what will happen this weekend, I don't think anything is set in stone

Tomorrow and the day after are vital, with an Easterly flow starting to pick up and forcing warmer air away

to our West, leaving probably only Ireland, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire in milder conditions. But it seems

every run varies so much that upgrade, downgrade, it seems to change every time, sometimes good, sometimes not

really doesn't matter very much one way or the other, the weather will do what it will, "Butterfly Effect" nayone?

Safe to say it will all play out with some being disappointed no matter what the outcome

Thanks for replying NNW, it's good to have an intelligent debate about these things, I really like to keep an

open mind amongst all the passion and drama, when it's clear that despite best intentions

so many folk get caught up in the emotion and potentially miss what's on their doorstep like

snow that sneaks up unexpectedly while you at out at

evensong or down the pub or at a book club or similar

reading about weather in my case, BTW NNW there are some very good books that feature snow in the plot and/or title but anyway back on a 

serious note let's carry on with this tomorrow if you are around, have enjoyed it very much , it's what this place is all about.

 

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

GFS short ensembles Central England

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Very chilly with cold uppers for a good few days before the cold uppers disappear during the transition phase (whether that be declining block or retrogression of some sort) but ground temps not really rising with them.

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  • Location: Peterborough N.Cambridgeshire
  • Location: Peterborough N.Cambridgeshire

Personally im not bothered what the EC monthly, ECM ensembles, GEFS ensembles show and I will explain my theory why.

This has been a winter when in my opinion the operationals have ruled and the ensembles have proved useless. This is because the winter has been predominately blocked and the models fare much better with bog standard W-E zonal flow. Now the reason for this (my own theory) is normal global weather patterns are programmed into the NWP. Some will tell you the models are just fed the data and then off they run. However all hardware needs software and its the programming of the software why we see different verification stats between the likes of the ECM to the NAVGEM.

Look for example at the ECM +168. You could not get more opposite to our normal weather pattern if you tried with E,lys spreading all the way into the Atlantic.

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This is exactly why the reliability of the models is dreadful at the moment. So if the operationals are struggling so much why have any faith on ensembles or even worse the EC Monthly!!

 

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

The signal for retrogression within GFS ensembles at day 10 is very, very, very strong. Very:D

However the low resolution means that they want to revert to climatology so many runs find all kinds of Houdini like ways to get the Atlantic out of the blocking straight-jacket while others just light a cigar happy with their work over Greenland.

Point is, retrograde signals is very strong so it is a battle of the ensemble suites. 

 

18z central England (not warm)

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Posted
  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk
  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk
7 minutes ago, abruzzi spur said:

Thanks for replying NNW, it's good to have an intelligent debate about these things, I really like to keep an

open mind amongst all the passion and drama, when it's clear that despite best intentions

so many folk get caught up in the emotion and potentially miss what's on their doorstep like

snow that sneaks up unexpectedly while you at out at

evensong or down the pub or at a book club or similar

reading about weather in my case, BTW NNW there are some very good books that feature snow in the plot and/or title but anyway back on a 

serious note let's carry on with this tomorrow if you are around, have enjoyed it very much , it's what this place is all about.

 

Cheers AB, been an interesting chat, now time to head for the hills, just

realised the time and I have to be up at 6:00. So I look forward to tomorrows runs

and see if they keep up predicting what I think we all hope will be a prolonged cold spell.

Potential?  Lots of it, but still way too many variables

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  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset

We are to hope that the 18z has started the trend of model runs that are emerging from the fog and confused chaos of recent days as hopefully he retrogression signal is being picked up here. Yes I'm talking to you ECM

Of course, that doesn't mean any sort of clear cut route is going to be carved out (far far from it) but this should be the start of more cobra runs appearing on our tablets and mobiles in the coming days and beyond. Of course that will also mean many near miss runs and just plain poor runs in amongst, so a steady nerve will be required as always.This will not a place for the faint hearted!

The 18z for instance whilst (assuming it is based on having picked up a retrogression signal from tropical forcing) is a great run, goes on build some feasibly solid looking GL based HLB only for it to be all but gone in a few days! Very strange but hey, Lo res will do what Lo res will, so nothing to worry about in that respect.

A transient mild(er), but unlikely mild in any way, period highly likely IMO after the initial Easterly. As to get from A to C we have to go through B, it's virtually unavoidable!

With my loaded double dice analogy, we should just need to roll a 5 and above to land (what is always subjectively speaking) a decent cold and snowy spell. Way better odds than the average potential spell, mainly because of the likely larger window(s) of opportunity that I think we are going to be offered here.

 

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  • Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
  • Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire

If anyone remembers the Jan '87 and Feb '91 cold spells (easterly situations), the reason we got 'prolonged' snow was because there was low pressure nearby (with associated fronts of course). 

'87 saw systems sweep west to east underneath the block, whilst '91 saw lows move up from France. The both also had a perfectly straight easterly too. 

So to this end, I am going to be looking for low pressure approaching to the south as that's where we'll get our prolonged snow from in my view, as well as a pure easterly via straight isobars. 

Don't want much do I!

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  • Location: Morecambe
  • Location: Morecambe

Got to say it is good too see the models have upgraded in the short term so we are getting more of a ENE'y flow with slightly lower pressure and slightly lower thicknesses but I still don't think its enough to bring the classic sunshine and shower set up which for me is what a classic easterly is imo. Any PPN will be dynamic rather than convective however if the air is cold enough and other factors come into play then some places might see some snowfall which is not classed as snow flurries!

The high thicknesses is probably one of the reasons why temps are forecast to rise as high as 4 or 5C despite cold uppers overhead being quite cold, lack of PPN could also be another factor.

If there is any clear skies anywhere then some severe frosts are likely but I suspect frosts could well be a bit patchy from region to region because the large amount of cloud that is forecast.

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3 hours ago, SylvainTV said:

Hello, sorry for the late answer : unfortunately we don't have access to this data freely (and it costs > 100000€ yearly) . Whenever it is available, it will be available on the site the day after :)

Wow - expensive !

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

GFS & UKMO  00z  cold pool bullseye

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Also both have  the pattern a little further West with WAA driven more steeply poleward.

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
7 minutes ago, Mucka said:

GFS & UKMO  00z  cold pool bullseye

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And both models have backed the Canadian vortex off ever so slightly 120/144 hours. Still waiting on the 144 UKMO chart though.

Tense viewing from here now...

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Can we get upstream to play ball?

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
30 minutes ago, Mucka said:

GFS 168 very similar to 18z so good consistency unlike ECM

Just marginally better oriented and further West so FI will be interesting.

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Meanwhile GEM makes it a hat trick with the cold pool.

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So close to a snowmaker Mucka, so close

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By the very end of the run it still looks like it wants to 'go there' RE cold from the N/NE. Late Feb/early March Cold from the NE is so fun...convective goodness!

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  • Location: Manchester
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in the Summer, cold and snowy in the winter, simples!
  • Location: Manchester
9 minutes ago, CreweCold said:

So close to a snowmaker Mucka, so close

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Yeah but I'm happy so long as the signal remains for Greenland height rises out at day 10.

I'm sure there will plenty of eye candy among the ensembles and maybe better we aren't seeing it on op to keep expectation manageable (I mean mine :crazy:

Still gives us nice last frame though.

 

GEM was a stinker of ECM variety so let's hope ECM keeps improving and GEM is being GEM.

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
2 minutes ago, Mucka said:

Yeah but I'm happy so long as the signal remains for Greenland height rises out at day 10.

I'm sure there will plenty of eye candy among the ensembles and maybe better we aren't seeing it on op to keep expectation manageable (I mean mine :crazy:

Still gives us nice last frame though.

 

Very nice last frame indeed...Some bitter cold heading our way after that little Atlantic low clears through and heights rise once more behind.

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  • Location: Aberporth S W Wales
  • Location: Aberporth S W Wales

The trend seems to be 3 fold to me, cold weekend, but nothing dramatic, snow showers in the northeast, tilting high draws up less cold uppers next week, then it's look north west to a Ridge forming over Greenland combined with a Arctic blast into Scandinavia just after mid month to hopefully bring something more potent to the uk latter part of Feb.

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Some nice Greenland ridges in there at 240/252 hrs

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Improves further as we lose ridge to east

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Weather Preferences: Dry mild or snow winter. Hot and humid summer.
  • Location: Bournemouth

T96 ecm -8 for the uk for almost everyone. 

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
1 hour ago, Mucka said:

GFS 168 very similar to 18z so good consistency unlike ECM

Just marginally better oriented and further West so FI will be interesting.

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Meanwhile GEM makes it a hat trick with the cold pool.

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You can make that 4 out of 4

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Very cold weekend looking likely now - but will the snow go north or south - or both??

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  • Location: Warsaw, Poland. Formerly London.
  • Weather Preferences: Four true seasons. Hot summers and cold winters.
  • Location: Warsaw, Poland. Formerly London.

Bit of a rubbish progression from 120 to 144. UK loses most of the cold air and again Greece gets the bulk of the upper cold. 

Get your like button ready @Alekos you cheeky chappy

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Weather Preferences: Dry mild or snow winter. Hot and humid summer.
  • Location: Bournemouth
1 minute ago, Seasonality said:

Bit of a rubbish progression from 120 to 144. UK loses most of the cold air and again Greece gets the bulk of the upper cold. 

Get your like button ready @Alekos you cheeky chappy

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Pv is interesting at this time. Less forcing on the high. Might not sink on this run and join the party?

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