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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Apropos nothing really apart from a point of interest but the analysis is such on the 0600 gfs at 12 on the 7th that the 850mb temp is around 18C and the surface 19C If you took the DALR from 650mb you would be looking at a surface temp of 40C

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  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: wintry
  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
2 hours ago, knocker said:

Apropos nothing really apart from a point of interest but the analysis is such on the 0600 gfs at 12 on the 7th that the 850mb temp is around 18C and the surface 19C If you took the DALR from 650mb you would be looking at a surface temp of 40C

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DALR = Dry Air Lapse Rate?

TIA..!

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The frontal system currently bringing cloud, rain and breezy conditions to N. Ireland and western Scotland will continue the effect the region over night and into tomorrow morning and but a brief respite before the next system tracks in from the south west, bringing more rain and wind into N. Ireland by midday.

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  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: wintry
  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
7 hours ago, knocker said:

Yes.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Over the next few days pretty much a NW/SE split with cloudier and cooler in the former and the reverse in the latter. The current NH profile

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A reasonably fine start to the day in many areas but still cloud and patchy rain around in the north west and western areas. This will develop into a fine day, with perhaps some variable cloud, in much of England and Wales and eastern Scotland but the next frontal system us swinging rapidly north east and cloud and rain and strengthening winds will reach N. Ireland by midday and spread to Scotland and the north of England through the afternoon and evening.

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The cloud and patchy rain, perhaps interspersed with some heavier bursts, will linger across the north west and through the night and Thursday will spread further south and east to encompass much of Wales and the west of England with the cloud even encroaching into the midlands, Throughout this the south east will get a tad warmer.albeit it's still relatively warm elsewhere.

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It's worth pausing here to take an overview oft he situation and we find a cut off upper low to the south west that has initiated some very warm advection from NW Africa into a Iberia and equally important still a lot of west > east energy from N. Canada, and from the sub tropical jet, thus a strong westerly upper flow over the UK

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So for the time being the north remains cloudy with patchy light rain but with high pressure becoming more influential in the south temps becoming hot in some areas.

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Saturday sees the influence of the high pressure spreading further north thus a sunny and warm day for most and hot again in the south.

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Sunday sees the upper low and trough in the Atlantic still pushing east but this serves to amplify the ridge over the UK and to advect the warmer air further north to the south west resulting temporarily to a shift west of the surface temps. There is a very fine balance here of the energy/amplification scenario and the future evolution so this is just according to the gfs.

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The NH profile at T120

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  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: wintry
  • Location: Coniston, Cumbria 90m ASL
3 hours ago, knocker said:

Actually I answered too quickly Jeff. It should be Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate. Sorry. only just noticed my idiocy.

http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Dry-adiabatic_lapse_rate

Thanks, looking at the glossary it could almost be interchangeable anyway, and the concept is comparable, with one being a little easier to get your head round than the other! 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
1 hour ago, JeffC said:

Thanks, looking at the glossary it could almost be interchangeable anyway, and the concept is comparable, with one being a little easier to get your head round than the other! 

Just to clarify this Jeff

An adiabatic process is one during which the temperature of an air parcel can only cool or warm through expansion or compression, respectively. As air parcels rise, they expand and therefore cool adiabatically; as air parcels sink, they compress, and therefore warm adiabatically. The DALR is the rate at which unsaturated [relative humidity < 100%] air parcels cool or warm and is a constant 9.8°C km- at any temperature or pressure level.

The MALR is the rate at which saturated (RH= 100%) air parcels cool or warm, but unlike the DALR, it is not constant. When rising saturated parcels cool adiabatically, they release latent heat, which offsets some of the adiabatic cooling. Therefore the MALR is smaller than the DALR and its magnitude is dependent on temperature, because warmer saturated parcels release more latent heat. At warmer temperatures, the MALR is less steep than it is at colder temperatures indicating that as warmer saturated air parcels rise, they cool more slowly than colder saturated air parcels. In general, 6°C km- 1 can be thought of as an average MALR value, but the MALR is larger at colder temperatures and higher altitudes. In fact, if an air parcel is cold and/ or high enough, the MALR will nearly equal the DALR.

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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
24 minutes ago, knocker said:

The 0900 UTC geostationary

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Looks like the previous dormant front across the near continent coming alive again with some thunderstorms breaking out along the front with pulses of very warm surface air mixing with the cooler uppers. Will be interesting to see if it expands .

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The frontal system currently bringing cloud and rain to N. Ireland and western Scotland will continue to track NE over Scotland and the cold front will push into Wales and western areas of England so cloud and patchy rain here through the evening and night. Further east a pretty clear night.

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The 1500 geostationary

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

This evening's fax chart for Saturday has the high cell centred to the south west of Ireland with a weakening cold front across the UK all of which leads to this ecm interpretation.

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Over  the next couple of days the east bound energy compresses the high cell thus keeping the N/S differential and quite warm in the south.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The outlook is for the temps generally to continue above average, perhaps significantly so at times in the south east, but with conflicting energy flows very much a NW/SE split with the detail on occasion difficult to pin down.

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The current NH profile

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Today the warm front that brought some rain to the north west yesterday has moved away leaving much of the UK in a humid, warm sectorish, south westerly airstream thus cloudy and misty and maybe some drizzle in western areas but in the clearer south east temps starting to pick up although it is quite warm generally. But during the afternoon the next system tracking up from the south west will bring cloud and rain into N. Ireland and then later into Scotland.

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The system will continue to bring patchy rain to Scotland during the night and into Friday and as the cold front pushes south east so will the cloud and rain, albeit that will tend to fizzle out as the front weakens against the high pressure. But it will mark the temperature boundary and south of the front temps will get locally hot.

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Overnight Friday and trough Saturday fronts continue to track around the strengthening ridge but perforce weakening as they do so so just the odd shower over northern Scotland but still the emphasis on a NW/SE split

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Sunday the twin energy flows are entering the picture with the trough to the west getting some traction on the jet but for the time being the ridge is quite resilient and generally it is another warm and sunny day

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By Monday the fronts and low pressure will have made some inroads in the north west so some cloud and rain into N. Ireland and Scotland but apart from here generally another very warm day,

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The NH profile at T120

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Cloud and rain, particularly over N. Ireland and Scotland, but not exclusively as the cloud also stretches down through Wales and western regions of England is currently the order of the day  But in the clearer eastern regions temps have reached 30C in some places. Clearly illustrated on the 1500 geostationary and chart.

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Overnight pulses of rain will continue to run north east effecting N, Ireland and Scotland and down the north west of England but still a mild night in the humid south westerly

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

By 1200 Tuesday the main low is south of Iceland with a subsidiary wave within the circulation tracking north east into N. Ireland and Scotland by 00 Monday bringing cloud and rain with it, The associated cold front will slowly track south east and decay through Monday and Tuesday whilst the main low re orientates to the north west as pressure amplifies in the western Atlantic, An illustration of the continuing NW/SE split

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