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Posted
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
7 minutes ago, summer blizzard said:

No SSW on the mean today however 5 ensembles do produce a SSW by the 10th. 

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I'll take CMC (GEM) ensemble number 4!

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The GFS op seems to have taken a step back over the last day or so, looks to me as if the quick route of a split has disappeared from this model, leaving a further warming leading to a displacement in FI, 12z:

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Split still there in the ensembles though.

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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

Amount of splits up to 15 compared to 9 yesterday ens_nh-vortells_010hPa_20200127_f384.thumb.png.610a586572db4795bd36f2e03728388a.png

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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
1 minute ago, mountain shadow said:

15 out of how many KW?

64 but I was purely highlighting the fact that it was an improvement compared to yesterdays 

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
52 minutes ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

64 but I was purely highlighting the fact that it was an improvement compared to yesterdays 

As long as it keeps improving!

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
2 hours ago, Paul_1978 said:

I am not “hanging on the word” of any meteorologist (unfair statement if aimed at me) given the fluidity of the science of weather, I was simply observing a stated possible outcome. 

Wasn't aimed at you, apologies if it appears that way, just generally an observation of some knee-jerk reactions to pro met tweets over the years and last few days with the SSW, as if their word is the likely outcome. I agree with you, westerlies is a possible outcome still, particularly as the models appear to be backing away from a SSW ... for now and we're left with a restrengthening SPV. Though the warming is still on and a displacement of the SPV may still work in our favour. 

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  • Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
  • Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
2 hours ago, Nick F said:

Wasn't aimed at you, apologies if it appears that way, just generally an observation of some knee-jerk reactions to pro met tweets over the years and last few days with the SSW, as if their word is the likely outcome. I agree with you, westerlies is a possible outcome still, particularly as the models appear to be backing away from a SSW ... for now and we're left with a restrengthening SPV. Though the warming is still on and a displacement of the SPV may still work in our favour. 

Thanks Nick 

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
2 hours ago, Nick F said:

Wasn't aimed at you, apologies if it appears that way, just generally an observation of some knee-jerk reactions to pro met tweets over the years and last few days with the SSW, as if their word is the likely outcome. I agree with you, westerlies is a possible outcome still, particularly as the models appear to be backing away from a SSW ... for now and we're left with a restrengthening SPV. Though the warming is still on and a displacement of the SPV may still work in our favour. 

I reckon if we nuked the SPV now, it would remain intact! 

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
4 minutes ago, Don said:

I reckon if we nuked the SPV now, it would remain intact! 

Probably going to have to take a second warming later in Feb to do more meaningful damage than what is now currently being shown by the models. The SPV won't give in easily this winter.

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
7 minutes ago, Nick F said:

The SPV won't give in easily this winter.

Too right it won't, it means business this year!

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
10 minutes ago, Dennis said:

a thriller week.... will there be a ssw or splt soon?

 

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Doubt it. 

There's going to be a warming but a full reversal looks unlikely, I think the best we can hope for is u-wind strength to be a little bit below average for the time of year. What impacts (if any) that has on overall weather patterns remains to be seen. 

The vortex has been a worthy opponent this winter & it seems even a warming isn't going to worry it too much.

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  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
13 minutes ago, Dennis said:

a thriller week.... will there be a ssw or splt soon?

 

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Your middle chart would indicate not. A brief drop of zonal winds to average.

At least with average, we get might more a shot at brief cold.

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

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Pretty sure there wasn't a split being modelled at 30 hPa before today. 00z only very briefly managed it, 06z taking it a fair bit further.

Beginning 10 days from now - it might have some validity.

Still the issue with it not being a 'true split' though; no cross-polar bridge of anomalously warm temps and high heights, for which an influx on the Atlantic side is needed.

Odds are, a split as shown would lead to some hair loss over pesky troughs NE Canada - Greenland tending to flatten mid-Atlantic ridge efforts. A little room for a Scandinavian high perhaps, but not great... and too much uncertainty to sensibly explore such details anyway.

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK
3 hours ago, Dennis said:

a thriller week.... will there be a ssw or splt soon?

 

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In short - no. Ensemble members too aggressive as usual.

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As the weak/reversal members start to get flushed out, we are left pretty much where we were - a weakened vortex from the very strong one we've seen most of winter, but still around normal.

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There's always next year.

 

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  • Location: Abergavenny
  • Location: Abergavenny

GFS is still showing the SPV getting moved around the ring by the warming, but  such is its strength this year it largely stands firm. Can a secondary warming land a knockout blow......

 

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  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, warm sunny days.
  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl
3 hours ago, mb018538 said:

In short - no. Ensemble members too aggressive as usual.

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As the weak/reversal members start to get flushed out, we are left pretty much where we were - a weakened vortex from the very strong one we've seen most of winter, but still around normal.

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There's always next year.

 

I'd grown so tiresome of hearing that phrase as a Liverpool fan, but hopefully this year will be the one 

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Posted
  • Location: portsmouth uk
  • Weather Preferences: extremes
  • Location: portsmouth uk

Been sustained warmth in the stratosphere and some extra warmth to come but even the models are sniffing around and seem to be responding to something.

If the vortex is on the ropes eventually there be an opportunity.

the glosea model was mentioned a little while ago and that had the possibility of a stratosphere warming.

so far and about a week or two before the other models.

So worth a mention I thought.

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

I feel a good view of the situation is that the forcing toward relentlessly mobile weather patterns is relaxing toward or perhaps a little below average during 1st half Feb.

This being thanks to that big MJO wave which, while it didn’t make it far enough east across the Pacific to initiate HLB, did get far enough to seriously soup-up mid-latitude blocking (to record strength across the UK for example). 

With that comes huge energy transfer into major mountain ranges, with wave deflection upward to assault the polar vortex via strat warming.

Now, the MJO looks to cycle back around to Indonesia. This suggests another round of MLB enhancement to come by mid-Feb. Potentially more strong wave breaking. So I can see where GFS is coming from with that second warming development.

In the meantime, we look to typical variation in jet meandering, to offer some most likely transitory cold snaps, which due to the Atlantic-side Arctic sea ice configuration may pack more of a punch than we’ve become used to this past decade. Main question is ‘direct hit, or glancing blow’. We know which one we tend to get...!

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
4 hours ago, DavidS said:

GFS is still showing the SPV getting moved around the ring by the warming, but  such is its strength this year it largely stands firm. Can a secondary warming land a knockout blow......

 

Hopefully the secondary warming will hit it so hard, it will still be out of action next winter!

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  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.
  • Weather Preferences: WINTERS WITH HEAVY DISRUPTIVE SNOWFALL AVRAGE SPRING HOT SUMMERS.
  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.

interesting the Met office model was mentioned watching the Met weather studio streaming live yesterday afternoon this question of strat warming was asked and the response was that there is between 15 and 20% chance of a SSW if I remember correctly.

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

It’s game over. 

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The latest GLOSEA run not only reduces the extent of weakening in early Feb but shows no sustained weakening whatsoever. 

GEFS have backed away from an SSW (unsurprisingly, strong negative bias beyond day 10) & the GFS is suggesting a return to an above average strength u-wind. 

Even if we see an SSW in late February (unlikely) it’ll be far too late for any real impact taking into account lag time.

No help from the vortex this winter. We’ll just have to hope for some favourable trop led patterns mid-late Feb. The first half looks distinctly zonal. 

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK
1 hour ago, Interitus said:

Don't worry, one of the CFS members has the strongest reversal/early final warming on record 

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That's some change....from a downward plunge to zero, to now rebounding sharply above normal again. Strap yourselves in for winter 2019/20 zonality part 45 people...

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