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4 hours ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

 

If you look at the NAM index tweeted & compare it with the tweet from simon lee you can see that the GFS was a massive outlier against the GEFS mean - so that means the above chart will only represent the operational viewpoint.

There is no chart constructed for the NAM for the GEFS mean -

There are the elliptical diagnostics that will show each member - which would probably be a better indicator....

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Following on from the Simon Lee tweet, here is the GFS vs GEFS 12z ZMZW. Spot the GFS -

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And the 18z -

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GFS not quite as strong towards the end but the ensembles shifting en masse towards the op.

Notable that under the suggested SPARC/SNAP criteria for assessing NWP skill, the GFS forecast wouldn't even register as a weak vortex -

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courtesy A. Charlton-Perez

 

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans

Following on from @interitus above, the 00z gefs have min mean flow around 15m/s 

certainly weaker than average but certainly not the drop most were anticipating ..... my thoughts revert back to Andrej’s comments a few days ago that the actual charts are more informative than the mean graphical representation???

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

A quick glance at the 100, 50 and 30mb gph charts with the gfs at t192 suggests to my untutored eye, significant warming at 30mb, a tight vortex at 50mb and a reflection of the trop 500mb level at 100mb

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5 minutes ago, knocker said:

A quick glance at the 100, 50 and 30mb gph charts with the gfs at t192 suggests to my untutored eye, significant warming at 30mb, a tight vortex at 50mb and a reflection of the trop 500mb level at 100mb

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For ease of viewing they've halved the isopleths for the 30mb chart by doubling the contour interval so a misleading comparison.

The take-out from those charts may be how closely co-located the vortex centres are - little vortex tilt/baroclinicity and warming at that time.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
2 minutes ago, Interitus said:

For ease of viewing they've halved the isopleths for the 30mb chart by doubling the contour interval so a misleading comparison.

The take-out from those charts may be how closely co-located the vortex centres are - little vortex tilt/baroclinicity and warming at that time.

Yes I should have mentioned that.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
2 minutes ago, Interitus said:

And I perhaps should have called them isohypse 

Funny you should mention that as my finger was just poised

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  • Location: The Netherlands
  • Location: The Netherlands

There appears to be a pretty close relationship between max wave1 in November and NAO in December

https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fantmasiello%2Fstatus%2F1197347865481404417&widget=Tweet

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Maximum wave 1 this November off the chart:

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Seeing some real continuation of the wave1 pattern in the upper layers of the stratosphere as new Eddy heat flux is generated over Russia.

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Also because of the favorable conditions of the troposphere for blocking because of the solar minimum, we may expect a siginificant blocking signal next month over the Atlantic.

I am wondering if the displacement of the SPV will be enough for an official SSW, later next month. 

 

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
2 hours ago, Paul123 said:

 

I am wondering if the displacement of the SPV will be enough for an official SSW, later next month. 

 

Got a feeling it will, it looks vulnerable to further attacks, certainly relative to the usual looking vortex in early December.

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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
17 minutes ago, Interitus said:

GFS/GEFS zonal wind difference continues on 06z, though the ensembles have some support from the 00z GEOS

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What is the x-axis scale on that chart? I initially assumed hours, but that can't be right. Is each tick 6 hours?

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  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
6 hours ago, s4lancia said:

Yep, a bit of a reversal (or not as the case may be) from a couple of days back.

Monday

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Today

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GEFS always overshoots the decrease a lot at the end of a run, it also overshoots the increases at the end of the run but not that much. In previous years in reality the speeds always oscillate up or down 

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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL

 

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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby

i didnt think decembers of 69, 76, or 83 were particuarly cold...

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
4 minutes ago, mushymanrob said:

i didnt think decembers of 69, 76, or 83 were particuarly cold...

They might have been in America though.

EDIT : who knows anyway, he might be referring to cold ENSO episodes or something else.

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
6 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

 

Yes, feet firmly on the floor for a while yet.

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