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  • Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk
  • Weather Preferences: An Alpine climate - snowy winters and sunny summers
  • Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk

If your post has disappeared this evening it has been moved to the Autumn Chat thread here. Please keep this thread for discussions about what is happening in the stratosphere. Thank you.

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  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
11 hours ago, feb1991blizzard said:

They might have been in America though.

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

His audience is mostly American living in the Eastern part of the US. 

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
25 minutes ago, sebastiaan1973 said:

< 15 m/s at day 10. Lowest value I've seen from EC.  

 

To be honest, i do not think that the initial displacement towards Siberia of the vortex was ever going to result in a technical SSW, Its the warming just coming into view now which was at one stage looking like it might do on the GFS runs, however do we even want another displacement right now given that we have a Northerly in the troposphere being shown on some model runs, could that stronger warming actually knock us out of a blocking pattern by displacing the vortex back over towards Canada, obviously anyone's guess whether it will actually imprint on the troposphere but i am just throwing it out there.

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  • Location: Essex, Southend-On-Sea
  • Weather Preferences: Warm, bright summers and Cold, snowy winters
  • Location: Essex, Southend-On-Sea
2 hours ago, feb1991blizzard said:

To be honest, i do not think that the initial displacement towards Siberia of the vortex was ever going to result in a technical SSW, Its the warming just coming into view now which was at one stage looking like it might do on the GFS runs, however do we even want another displacement right now given that we have a Northerly in the troposphere being shown on some model runs, could that stronger warming actually knock us out of a blocking pattern by displacing the vortex back over towards Canada, obviously anyone's guess whether it will actually imprint on the troposphere but i am just throwing it out there.

The wave 1 forcing is over Canada so it wouldn’t knock it back over. If we lose the wave 1 forcing on that side of the globe then the vortex is surely free to head back? 

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
2 minutes ago, Snowman. said:

The wave 1 forcing is over Canada so it wouldn’t knock it back over. If we lose the wave 1 forcing on that side of the globe then the vortex is surely free to head back? 

If this was to imprint??

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Interesting difference still in zonal winds between GFS and GEOS from today's 00z runs -

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However, at day 10 they look by eye to be pretty much on the same page -

GFS

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GEOS

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The GEOS vortex is marginally more displaced with the GFS propped up with a touch of wave 2. The result is the polar night jet is shifted southwards slightly on the GEOS -

GFS

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GEOS

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And though the GFS is only marginally stronger - maximum windspeed of 88.6 ms vs 85.8 ms, the difference in windspeeds occurs almost smack bang on 60°N -

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
18 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

If this was to imprint??

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Though i think i might have been talking total nonsense before and i hope i was to be honest.

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

Today's members, still backed off where we were a few dayys ago but a couple of runs toying with a very early SSW

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Fast forward 3 weeks time from last winter (and I think this turned out fairly accurate from this point onwards, a couple of days earlier than it was from memory)...

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Wave 2 forcing coming into view?...

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  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Frost and snow. A quiet autumn day is also good.
  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl
6 hours ago, Snowman. said:

The wave 1 forcing is over Canada so it wouldn’t knock it back over. If we lose the wave 1 forcing on that side of the globe then the vortex is surely free to head back? 

Yes. But it might recover to a central location tilted on its axis or still stretched. Displacement isnt that exciting...but a stretched or tilted vortex heading towards mid month would be a good start.

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
1 hour ago, s4lancia said:

Today's members, still backed off where we were a few dayys ago but a couple of runs toying with a very early SSW

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Fast forward 3 weeks time from last winter (and I think this turned out fairly accurate from this point onwards, a couple of days earlier than it was from memory)...

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Wave 2 forcing coming into view?...

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12 gefs revert back to aggressive slowdown to mean below 5m/s .......

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
4 hours ago, bluearmy said:

12 gefs revert back to aggressive slowdown to mean below 5m/s .......

Wouldn't surprise me to see an even lower mean on the 18z, perhaps even an SSW.

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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

Yes @feb1991blizzard most consistent run so far from the GEFS with the warming starting to push into Canada / Arctic by around 4th / 5th December onward. Mean - anim_uho4.thumb.gif.f80cd0232b37cc71c50e4c9146422c44.gif Will be fascinating to see how it all unfolds.

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
12 hours ago, bluearmy said:

12 gefs revert back to aggressive slowdown to mean below 5m/s .......

And the 00z run down to 5 m/s ....... the pendulum hasn’t swung back convincingly but the ops are still playing with a pretty strong upper vortex (temporarily perhaps) whilst the ens are at the opposite end of the scale

i notice a little lump of increased zonal flow  in the ec lower strat around 60/75N entering week 2 which may reflect why the ec polar field is recentl stronger flow ...... question being what happens if this little lump doesn’t verify ......

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK

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A few GFS members fall off the cliff this morning and go full reversal. Interesting times.

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent

6 GEFS members going for a full reversal, some extremely so with the mean moving towards a technical SSW at the end of the run. Meanwhile the GFS goes in completely the opposite direction & produces an above average vortex

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  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
  • Location: Netherlands close to the coast
11 minutes ago, Met4Cast said:

6 GEFS members going for a full reversal, some extremely so with the mean moving towards a technical SSW at the end of the run. Meanwhile the GFS goes in completely the opposite direction & produces an above average vortex

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My bet is the gfs is right, EC shows a big jump in the 1 hPa winds and from what I have seen in previous years the lower levels of the vortex will soon follow 

 

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
1 hour ago, feb1991blizzard said:

GFS really has backed away now.

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Typical.  These models are not kind to us are they?!

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
Just now, Don said:

Typical.  These models are not kind to us are they?!

GEFS still offering some hope, ECM 12z didn't look too bad yesterday at 240 in terms of the 1mb and 10mb, comparable in terms of the temperature but the warming was only just starting so difficult if it would go on to produce the effect of a couple of GFS ops yesterday and some GEFS members.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
2 hours ago, feb1991blizzard said:

GEFS still offering some hope, ECM 12z didn't look too bad yesterday at 240 in terms of the 1mb and 10mb, comparable in terms of the temperature but the warming was only just starting so difficult if it would go on to produce the effect of a couple of GFS ops yesterday and some GEFS members.

The uncertainty about this at the moment is massive, here zonal winds from 0z set:

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GFS op just doesn't want to know - been the story for days, is it because the FV3 is better at modelling the strat, or is it worse, time will tell.  The ellipses look fun at T384:

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Very mixed bag but I quite like number 8!

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