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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.

Just as a side issue from the Amplification (or none as we head through xmas), I was having a debate the other day about the changes made to ensembles and that I had noticed that more amplified members seem to pop up in the first 10 GEFS pertubations (particularly wrt easterlies), 6z is a classic example.

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

Awaiting the eps clusters but the spreads at day 10 reveal an amplification off the eastern seaboard - wonder what the percentage will be ??

as the North Pacific ridge goes up again and the Canadian trough digs south again in response , we are seeing the jet strongly across the Atlantic (as a consequence of the temporary pull back of the Pacific ridge) with no Atlantic ridging evident - I think it’s incorrect to just assume this will verify. The atmosphere has been predisposed to amplify to our west thus far and it may well do so again once the upstream trough digs.

of course this is not currently the favoured route forward approaching xmas with a sinking zonal flow more likely as the Azores ridge sinks away and pulls back further south. 

I think this is a very reasonable stance to take today. Much will become clear as we head through this week... but for now timing of the next phase of winter is up for grabs.

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

I'm certainly not in denial, i've been banging on about the increasing Atlantic influence from the GEFS mean for days but it's been conveniently swept under the carpet during the cold frenzy.

Agreed Frosty - I think pretty much everyone has been saying a period of westerly influence through mid December was likely. What we have just experienced (though not everyone saw snow!!) was a rather unexpected appetiser to winter.... and the teleconnective guidance has been to look at the impact of the next MJO cycle, now firmly underway, sitting on top of a sustained AAM budget, with appropriate lag taken into account. Late December into January was always the call for proper cold to arrive... if it arrives.

The slight addendum to that is that we have experienced so much amplification recently (look at the winter storm in southern US... biggest in a hatful of years) that some suggestion of sustained mid atlantic ridge influence has become worth chewing over. BA has pointed to this well today - though a 17% temporary cluster isn't much to celebrate. However I would agree with him - flatter pattern for a while still likely but not absolutely guaranteed yet.

Still keenly awaiting the latest data from the pacific....

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  • Location: Dipton, Nr Consett, Co.Durham, 250m, 777ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but boringly hot
  • Location: Dipton, Nr Consett, Co.Durham, 250m, 777ft asl

From the latest GFS run, heights remain over the pole beyond T240 and from history whilst they remain in that unusual locale, I have found that cold spells often pop into the forecast without much notice as they often struggle whilst heights remain oop North.

A bit of hopecasting, yes,  a bit of viewing experience yes, but I'm not ready to churn out the Vardy,  just yet.

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  • Location: Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW AND FREEZING TEMPS
  • Location: Hertfordshire

A Few very cold runs from the ens at the end of the GEFS 6z . Are take purb 5 ? For Christmas Day . We can dream .  

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  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy Winters, Torrential Storm Summers
  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL

Well first real sign in the 15 Day ensembles of swinging back to colder, from less cold conditions toward the end of the month. 

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

I can understand the despondancy but the charts certainly do not scream endless zonal to me. +PNA hints in a week or so time will be worth watching.

Also, P5 pulls out an absolute belter of a run this morning on the 06z and shows HOW and WHY we should not rule out looking to the E / NE, as a few others seem to have already done. All a bit soon though probably.

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Edit: Ha ha, I can see P5 caught they eye of others as well

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  • Location: Nuneaton,Warks. 128m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow then clear and frosty.
  • Location: Nuneaton,Warks. 128m asl

May lead to nothing but the Atlantic pick up at the weekend doesn't look straightforward looking at the clusters from the latest gefs.

First of all a look at the 850hPa temps

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showing the mean rising around the 17th but the op staying cold along with a few other members.Looking at the jet stream patterns for that time

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a lot of splitting and signs of trough disruption around the UK with some energy leaking south.

The favoured evolution for week 2 is still for the flattening upstream to release enough Canadian energy to push the Atlantic through but maybe as we get closer the higher resolution of the operational runs may ease back on the amount of strength in the northern arm.

Just putting it out there for something to monitor over the next few runs.

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  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and Snow -20 would be nice :)
  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
9 minutes ago, Purga said:

Well - don't despair too much folks, the GEFS 06z do show a cool down towards Christmas with some beautiful runs appearing.

Notice the improvement from 00z to 06z (to add to Karlos's post above).

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Who wouldn't love to wake up to a 1962/63 Christmas like this?

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Obviously a very unlikely scenario but at least it has a few supporting runs.

:)

Agreed no 5 will do :santa-emoji:

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A CROSS MODEL ANALYSIS - GOOD NEWS FOR COLDIES!

My word it continues to be very quiet on this thread. This is probably down to a number of factors - some still discussing the snow on their respective regional spreads, a few (of the usual suspects) starting to think that winter is nearly over, some feeling that it's a long way back to any more prolonged cold (quite wrongly in my opinion) and perhaps some taking a break after the frenzied activity over the last couple of weeks. We seem to be missing many of our regular contributors who analyse the model output. So, I feel that we need to call in the reserves until the troops return! I shall break off in preparing part 2 of my weekly report (which may be ready late this evening) and attempt to provide a cross model analysis. While I am writing this from a sleety Exmouth, the 6z runs are rolling out and I will include this and the 0z runs from the other models. 

Yesterday (on page 7) I took a rare excursion into deep FI in order to show that most of the GEFS ensembles (from yesterday's 6z) were showing the PNA going strongly positive again with HP building strongly in the Arctic (some runs maintained it throughout) with strong signs of recovering amplification of the mid-Atlantic ridge and heights also building to our north-east. This was entirely consistent with what our experienced teleconnection posters have been telling us. Nothing seems to have changed in the following 12z and 0z runs. It has also been stated that these changes will follow a period of milder weather. While things can change later on, the main uncertainty was more to do with the timing of the change and the length of the milder interlude. The recent thinking was a change back to the much more blocked regime from around or shortly after Christmas time. This might be a few days sooner or later. I stressed that we need to be patient in searching for this evolution. The models are likely to continue to struggle with this broader pattern change and we can expect to see some big swings from run to run for the following week or so at least. I will be looking for the early signs of this evolution (much better than some seem to realise) and a trend developing. There will be some critical updates to come from the likes of @Tamara, @Glacier Point, @chionomaniac, @Catacol and others who follow and interpret the teleconnections.

Right, that's enough on the post Christmas period. The rest of this post will focus on the shorter term. There continues to be a little uncertainty on how long the current cold spell will last. After a hard frost tonight (severe over the snow fields) it looks like it will be less cold mid-week before another northerly moves in later in the week and into this weekend (more of less the 7th weekend in a row) although winds are already backing into the west by Sunday. Up to this point, there is broad agreement with all the models showing a northerly on Saturday as can be seen in the 5 day charts below. This Arctic outbreak would appear to be less potent that the recent one. The majority of model runs have been showing a change to a flatter westerly pattern with less cold or rather milder conditions spreading in. There have been variations on this theme with some runs showing a slightly north of west flow at times with more polar maritime air in the mix and rather cold conditions while others go for a generally milder Atlantic flow. The odd run continued to show colder conditions persisting. So, lets have a look at two periods for a cross model analysis with time adjustments to show an accurate comparison.  

 5 days out at 0100 on Saturday, December 16th:   

                   UKMO 0z T+120                                         ECM 0z T+120                                       GFS 6z T+114                                        GEFS 6z T+114             

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                    GEM 0z T+120                                      NAVGEM  6z T+114                           JMA 12z (Dec 10th) T+132

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10 days out at 0100 on Thursday, December 21st (note that UKMO and NAVGEM do not publish charts for this far out and the D8+ JMA charts have not updated for several days):   

                    ECM 0z T+240                                       GFS 6z T+234                            GEFS 6z T+240 (12 hr gaps, nearest)              GEM 0z T+240 

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I strongly feel that this is a case of first appearances being quite misleading!  On their most recent runs, all the models have shown the northerly being replaced by less cold or milder westerlies (either just north or just south of a straight westerly). Some runs went through a wetter spell but other runs are much drier with HP much closer to the UK. I'll let others analyse the details through this D5 to D10 period as I'm really interested in how the period ends around D10. The ECM may show one of the milder T+240 charts (dry in the south and wetter in the north) but there are still some encouraging signs. The PNA is starting to go more positive and there is HP building across the Arctic again. The GFS, GEFS and GEM D10 charts all show a large belt of HP building across the country. With the latter two starting to show a Scandinavian HP developing. In fact GEM is the most progressive with the HP extending all the way from Siberia, through Russia, Scandinavia and linking up with the Atlantic HP. They even have lower heights appearing in central/northern Europe and signs of an easterly developing. Whether these three charts are too progressive or whether the ECM is a little behind the curve is not really relevant this far ahead. The trends are there and from a coldie's perspective this is exactly what I have been looking for.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Part 2 of my weekly report will focus on European temperatures and what we might expect from an easterly, should it come to fruition.                             

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme cold & snow
  • Location: West Sussex
18 minutes ago, Dancerwithwings said:

Agreed no 5 will do :santa-emoji:

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With this set-up pretty much all of us in the UK would likely benefit at some stage - and no it wouldn't be sleety marginal stuff :D

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

There's a few people in here being a bit quick to call "mild" in my opinion. Yes, it's likely to be less cold by the end of the week but going forward into next week it looks more like North-Westerlies will mostly dominate, it'll be wet with a fair amount of rain around as fronts push Eastwards but certainly nothing I'd call "mild", merely less cold than recent. 

Looking ahead, Tamara, GP etc have gone into detail about how heights towards Scandi look likely to develop towards the end of the month/early December and a few GFS ensembles are starting to pick up on that signal, too, not less, so is the control run.

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Obviously they're in a minority at the moment, but there is slowly growing support for that signal within the suites including within the EC too with some members trending colder in the extended

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Plenty to be optimistic about, I can't see anything to suggest raging zonal winds and mild Atlantic muck as per the last 3-4 winters. Watch the Scandi height signal grow through this week and expect the OP runs to start throwing out increasingly erratic outputs in the mid-extended range, too.

The MJO is moving towards phase 8, 10+ days lag time puts us around Christmas, key dates for me at the moment are 24th - 29th December for blocking to begin developing.

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.

IMHO, there are some people who are just to quick to call? Then again there are those who interpret other posters musings as definitive predictions, and then turn round and complain whenever said 'predictions' fail to yield fruit...?:cray:

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

It looks likely a very big and deep chunk of the PV is going to set up around Canada in the not too distant future....which could either mean gales and zonality (6z op) for us, or as some of the ensemble members show, cold can come about too. So much to play for!

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
9 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

IMHO, there are some people who are just to quick to call? Then again there are those who interpret other posters musings as definitive predictions, and then turn round and complain whenever said 'predictions' fail to yield fruit...?:cray:

In regards to my post above, definitely musings rather than predictions!! 

I would add that the EC clusters had a period at the end of November when they suggested a return to a flatter pattern around about now - we all know that did not happen!! So they could be wrong this time, too.

But if one took all of the model output today and studied it mathematically, they would not conclude an easterly to be the preferred option for Christmas. 

However, if someone things they can see signs of how the models might have got this wrong, that's a different matter - blooming good luck to you and I hope you are right :) 

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
1 hour ago, Dancerwithwings said:

Agreed no 5 will do :santa-emoji:

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We can dream can't we:)..hopefully January will bring the Beast from the east:cold:

In the meantime, it's still cold, it will become less cold midweek and then a cold Northerly towards the end of this week..then next week and indeed christmas looks more Atlantic driven changeable / unsettled with some fine spells, mainly further south with temps swinging between colder and milder.

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  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts
  • Weather Preferences: Snow snow and snow
  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts
4 hours ago, TEITS said:

Having read some of the posts from last night and this morning, if you don't mind me saying some are in denial. No evidence as mentioned last night of the jet continuing to run NW-SE. Little evidence of any significant height rises to our NE. The return of a milder pattern was obvious to me as I mentioned a few days ago.

What we are likely to see is a rather typical UK winter weather pattern of a flat jetstream with low pressure systems tracking NE to the N of the UK. Milder SW,lys with the weather more settled further S and rather more unsettled and windy for Scotland.

If we do see pressure rising then it is more likely to occur over the UK bringing settled conditions and cold nights. The last thing I see is any cold, snowy E,ly whilst heights remain low to our NW/N.

Sadly I would be amazed if any of the above changed before xmas. My punt is a dry, settled Xmas but at least we should wake up to frost which is better than wind/rain.

So much I agree with about this.  The "signs" that are there are signs that are nearly always there.  They are the same signs that are seen when it looks like the zonal norm is set to return to ruin a cold snowy period and we are told we can safely ignore them.

I do admire the work and effort that Tamara puts in for example, but you only have to look at early December last year for hints being given of something developing to our north east.  we know how that turned out. 

Personally I always value TEITs input and am delighted to see him back.  I think Knocker is one of the best and I like Steve Murr though I read his post like I think he intends them to be read, as explanations of what needs to be seen to be the cold and snow over us, rather than determining what will actually happen.

Just three mentioned but many more admired who's comments are driven by what the models are showing as opposed to an expectation of what "background signals" will cause them to show eventually.

I got quite a bit of kudos from mates for picking this last weekend out as a potential snowy one two weeks ago from viewing from GFS output.  Over the course of those two weeks some of the runs swung wildly but it kept coming back to what it was once showing in the far reaches of FI.

My concern for Christmas is that it will be more on the ball now than it will be on a few runs it makes up to the day itself. And, unlike TEITS, my conclusion is that we are in for a very mild wet and windy Christmas period!

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  • Location: Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Click on my name - sorry, it was too long to fit here......
  • Location: Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
4 hours ago, Weegaz said:

I can't seem to be able to upload the charts but surprised Wednesday evening through Thursday's snow event isn't being discussed.  Its showing again on the 6z GFS charts which are rolling out now.

Bitter cold here today......reached -9.5 at 9pm last night, warmed this morning to a balmy -1.5.  

It would be, at least, a consolation prize after the last few days. The Arpege 0.1 shows very little snow chance, however, WRF snow for high ground (usually the moors off to my west) and ICON, weirdly putting it tomorrow night instead. Chances look very slim then, unless we have the reverse of the recent debacle. EURO4 is usually closest so the midnight run should give a clue.

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North

Just looking at the GEFS 6z mean regarding next week shows a more settled spell as the Azores high builds in, at least across the southern half of the uk, perhaps more changeable across the far nw / n..doesn't look unsettled at all next week in the run up to christmas, doesn't look particularly mild either!:)

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
4 hours ago, Weegaz said:

I can't seem to be able to upload the charts but surprised Wednesday evening through Thursday's snow event isn't being discussed.  Its showing again on the 6z GFS charts which are rolling out now.

Bitter cold here today......reached -9.5 at 9pm last night, warmed this morning to a balmy -1.5.  

Not a criticism of your post at all, but just to say, I will never trust another GFS snow chart again after this weekend. Yesterday, it missed out about 50% of the areas receiving snow at T0! Then, this morning, again at T0, it had the entire south coast under a covering of snow!!

From now on I will stick to ARGEPE inside D5, and ARGEPE/AROME/HIRLAM/EURO4 inside D2Thank goodness we current have the ECM charts at weather.us - the "significant weather" chart has been pretty good at picking up snow trends (not the "snow total" chart which seems a total sum of any possible flake falling from the sky)

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  • Location: Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Click on my name - sorry, it was too long to fit here......
  • Location: Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
1 minute ago, Man With Beard said:

Not a criticism of your post at all, but just to say, I will never trust another GFS snow chart again after this weekend. Yesterday, it missed out about 50% of the areas receiving snow at T0! Then, this morning, again at T0, it had the entire south coast under a covering of snow!!

From now on I will stick to ARGEPE inside D5, and ARGEPE/AROME/HIRLAM/EURO4 inside D2Thank goodness we current have the ECM charts at weather.us - the "significant weather" chart has been pretty good at picking up snow trends (not the "snow total" chart which seems a total sum of any possible flake falling from the sky)

Most of those were poor at those ranges, only in the last 24 hours did they shift the heavy snow from here elsewhere, for example. So, trust none of them!

There really is no way of certainty until the last possible moment given not only the likely track but also the numerous parameters needed to predict what will be snow, sleet or rain.

T24 and no earlier.

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
Just now, ukpaul said:

Most of those were poor at those ranges, only in the last 24 hours did they shift the heavy snow from here elsewhere, for example. So, trust none of them!

There really is no way of certainty until the last possible moment given not only the likely track but also the numerous parameters needed to predict what will be snow, sleet or rain.

T24 and no earlier.

That is also a fair comment!! (But at least they got there in the end!)

ECM probably the best over a longer period of time?

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  • Location: Tyrone
  • Location: Tyrone
15 minutes ago, Man With Beard said:

That is also a fair comment!! (But at least they got there in the end!)

ECM probably the best over a longer period of time?

One thing for sure i agree with you is the snow totals are a joke London has 4 inches and the city has come to a standstill at the minute:rofl:, to be honest there all brutally crap at predicting snow.

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