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Posted
  • Location: Northern Ireland
  • Weather Preferences: Proper winter/Proper summer
  • Location: Northern Ireland
8 minutes ago, DJ RY said:

That rainfall accumulation chart above clearly shows the mild, moist SW'ly winds will be soon returning, so Western Scotland in the firing line but also very wet across SW Ireland and to a lesser extent West Wales (that'll probably come from persistent steady rain which could get stuck for days like we had last week here in South Wales). 

I thought it was coming from the NW and stalling

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18 minutes ago, Northwest NI said:

I thought it was coming from the NW and stalling

The low pressure system itself might be moving in from the NW but tbh I would say the winds will be coming from the SW bringing large amounts of rain to some western areas as they carry all that moisture off the relatively mild sea and dump it onto the hills and mountains especially. Here last week SW'ly winds and a stalled front which eventually moved south then north then south brought 3 days of continuous drizzle and fog/mist together with temperatures up to 16-17C. 

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .

Quite a surprise to see this mornings ECM develop more amplification over the USA and Canada which then allows some ridging to develop to the nw with suggestions of a north/nw flow after day ten.

The models do seem to be trying to move the PV away from Greenland which would be a positive sign for coldies but this is into the less reliable timeframe.

NCEP will be updating their monthly forecast for the USA later and that could provide some pointers as to how that upstream pattern could effect us here in western Europe. 

 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Looking at this evening's GEFs 7-12 anomaly one can see where the det run is coming from. Upstream the vortex over N. Canada with the positively tilted tough across NE N America and the other associated trough orientated south east Greenland/Iceland area, Thus a strong upper flow running east south of Greenland where it is to some extent restricted due to the Azores high pressure pushing north in mid Atlantic. The also facilitates the split flow, which also abates, in the east thanks to the low pressure and slack gradient to the south of the UK. This should portend some quiet weather, perhaps as usual excluding the north,  providing of course nothing nasty sneaks up from the south.

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  • Location: Evesham/ Tewkesbury
  • Weather Preferences: Enjoy the weather, you can't take it with you 😎
  • Location: Evesham/ Tewkesbury

Happy Halloween Everyone. The weather charts in the days ahead show a rather blocky pressure pattern so little rain for southern Britain the worst of the unsettled conditions in the north ,but on the other side of the coin temperatures will dip down below average for just about all with "frequent" bouts of frost mist and fog  at some point in the next ten days ......Proper November weather:yahoo:

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Not complete agreement between last night's anomalies but I suspect it may be down to timing.

Upstream not a problem with the Aleutian/Alaska ridge, vortex N. Canada and associated trough orientated south east to the north west of the UK. Thus a strong upper flow to the south of the latter but at the coal face to the west of the UK the flow splits thanks to pressure from the Azores pushing north and the influence of the trough to the south. The det runs need to decide the detail on how this pans out but the percentage play would appear to be increasing influence of the HP in the southern half of the country and more changeable in the north,,Temps a tad below average but a fair diurnal variation.

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Meanwhile back at the farm high pressure still in charge thus a largely quiet day with sunny intervals after morning cloud and fog has cleared for most of England and Wales. A bit more cloud in the far north of England and N. Ireland but central Scotland is the problem area with a slow moving front, persistent rain and quite windy. The north of Scotland brighter with showers, Tomorrow cloudy with sunny intervals for most but more persistent cloud in the Midlands as the front slowly tacking south fizzles out.

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The ridging on Thursday is quickly shunted away on Friday st the upper trough to the NW joins forces with the cut off low to the south and by 12 Saturday a surface fronts has tracked east across the southern half of country bringing rain with it. After the passage of the front and the main trough to the north the Azores once more pushes NE of the UK on Sunday giving a pretty dry bonfire evening.

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But the high now comes under massive pressure from a deep trough the north west (the scenario mentioned at the beginning of the post perhaps beginning to unfold) and surface fronts are slowly pushing south east across the country by 00 Tuesday.

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The front(s) quickly clear to the east but after some brief ridging the next trough has tracked quickly east to be north of Scotland by 12 Thursday with associated fronts and strong winds impacting most of the UK. It can be seen from this, only IMO of course, how important the interaction of the Azores and the energy pushing east is in determining the detail of the weather over the UK and that this is a long way from being resolved next week.

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

As suggested by recent meto updates drier towards the SE as the jet fires away to our North so pretty much a contiunation of the mind numbing pattern that persisted through the summer..ie the NW gets the majority of the wet stuff.

 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

And right on cue the ecm differs from the gfs quite drastically next week, well initially.  Midnight Weds it has a renewed bout of amplification with high pressure surging north over Scandinavia and in mid Atlantic which disrupts the trough just to the west of the UK. This establishes low pressure to the south of the UK and allows the Azores to ridge NE/E over the top as the Scandinavian ridge is flattened by the east bound energy to the north. Another variation on the theme.

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
11 minutes ago, knocker said:

And right on cue the ecm differs from the gfs quite drastically next week, well initially.  Midnight Weds it has a renewed bout of amplification with high pressure surging north over Scandinavia and in mid Atlantic which disrupts the trough just to the west of the UK. This establishes low pressure to the south of the UK and allows the Azores to ridge NE/E over the top as the Scandinavian ridge is flattened by the east bound energy to the north. Another variation on the theme.

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Yes ecm is quite different to gfs and more preferable. :)

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  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes of all kinds...
  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl

I was about to post the following charts when I saw the two posts above describing the marked difference between the ECM and the GFS in the 8 - 10 day period.  Still, it doesn't hurt to repeat this message because it will be interesting to watch them develop and see which model gets nearest to the actual conditions.....

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Best thing for me about both these sets of predictions is the lack of a raging Atlantic influence which should mean considerably less rain for western parts than has lately been the case.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Te key issue for me as to how this pans out remains the precise interaction and orientation of the three main players in our neck of the woods,The HP in the east and in particular the trough to the NW and the Azores to the south west  I can't post the EPS 7-12 anomaly but it makes more of the Azores ridging NE than the GEFS so the percentage play, for me, remains an  increasing likelihood of settled weather in the southern half of the UK in the medium term. But really it's all only a minor adjustment away from upper westerlies and the proverbial N/S split

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  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK
  • Weather Preferences: Northeasterly Blizzard and sub zero temperatures.
  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK

We have trouble brewing in the Alps for Sunday and into the following week. Classic freeze thaw conditions with freezing level this coming weekend ranging from 3000m down to 1500m. An active front has been forecast to stall over the Alps with copious amounts of rainfall. We in our location have a fine mesh model prediction of 26mm during Sunday which could turn back to snowfall. Cold air under cutting warm air above makes for Genoa Cyclonenis likely. This is shown on the ECM models out into next week with further pulses of heavy rainfall probably heaviest on Thursday before the energy slowly dissipates. A nightmare scenario for our piste preparation planners with freeze /thaw conditions and lots of precipitation.

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
2 hours ago, northwestsnow said:

Yes ecm is quite different to gfs and more preferable. :)

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It is indeed but I get the feeling that it may be over-amplifying the pattern. 

The UKMO at 144 hours looks to me closer to the GFS than the ECM

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .

Some bizarre goings on this morning with the ECM which seems to have been at a Halloween party.

It quickly develops high pressure to the ne and isn’t supported by either the GFS or UKMO although the GEM seems to have been at the same party .

We’ve seen some outlandish outputs from it over recent winters but generally these start showing up post T168 hrs but the changes here start around T120hrs.

 

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19 minutes ago, nick sussex said:

Some bizarre goings on this morning with the ECM which seems to have been at a Halloween party.

It quickly develops high pressure to the ne and isn’t supported by either the GFS or UKMO although the GEM seems to have been at the same party .

We’ve seen some outlandish outputs from it over recent winters but generally these start showing up post T168 hrs but the changes here start around T120hrs.

 

Indeed Nick the ECM was constantly over amplifying last winter and to some extent the winter before that but as you say it was always toward the end of it runs, maybe its on to something if I remember winter 2012/13 correctly the ECM was always first to go for blocking and amplification while the GFS was always dragged kicking a screaming to the party late on. fun and games starting early this year.

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)

The 6z GFS is more amplified than the earlier run, especially in the post 144 hour period, but still nowhere near what the ECM shows.

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  • Location: frome somerset 105m ABSL,
  • Weather Preferences: cold snow, thunderstorms
  • Location: frome somerset 105m ABSL,

Could this be the issue with the GFS, it seems to be predicting the vortex getting its act together

credit to Amy butler via twitter

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth

@bluearmy - thought you'd be interested in this - not unanimous but a growing number of ECM ensembles going for lower heights over Europe in the D10-D15 period? 

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GEFS 00Z, similarly, has maybe 7 or 8 out of 22 members taking the low Europe heights route by D12. GFS 06Z is more or less a bullseye for cold by D16:

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  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes of all kinds...
  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl

Yep - I always swear by those good old flokkunargluggi...

 

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
2 minutes ago, Sky Full said:

Yep - I always swear by those good old flokkunargluggi...

 

LOL! Don't you know your Icelandic ;) ??

It means "Classification period".

More importantly, "klasa sviosmyndir" means "cluster scenarios"

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  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK
  • Weather Preferences: Northeasterly Blizzard and sub zero temperatures.
  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK

Whether it comes off or not, still nice to see some snow cover prognosis for Mid November on this latest GFS run for parts of Northern Britain.

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .

A messy GFS 06hrs run but the key trend is the fragmenting PV and reluctance to stick a foreboding tightly coiled PV to the north . 

Perhaps the ECM is into something , I’m wondering whether we’re seeing some reaction to the MJO, last weeks global tropics hazards outlook mentioned the chance this could impact the long wave pattern in the USA.

As mentioned earlier in the thread by BA signs of lower heights over mainland Europe which does help deliver something colder.

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
48 minutes ago, nick sussex said:

A messy GFS 06hrs run but the key trend is the fragmenting PV and reluctance to stick a foreboding tightly coiled PV to the north . 

Perhaps the ECM is into something , I’m wondering whether we’re seeing some reaction to the MJO, last weeks global tropics hazards outlook mentioned the chance this could impact the long wave pattern in the USA.

As mentioned earlier in the thread by BA signs of lower heights over mainland Europe which does help deliver something colder.

I think I can recall a similar thing happening in 1974...Three guesses for what the Daily Excrescence was predicting!:D

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