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  • Location: Manchester
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in the Summer, cold and snowy in the winter, simples!
  • Location: Manchester
1 minute ago, nick sussex said:

If the models suddenly latch onto this quick response then I still wouldn’t trust them past T120hrs .

And If they go this route then clearly regardless of their strat input until you get much closer to the actual SSW then they find it hard to cope with the reversal .

Anyway just one run so we need a few more and see what the ECM has to say.

No doubt the models are going to be in a state of flux over the next few days as they try to reconcile opposing forces - makes for great model viewing.

 There may even be an EU directive to limit the amount of ensemble trawling. :spiteful:

 

 

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  • Location: Donegal
  • Location: Donegal
2 hours ago, Chevron12345 said:

Thats great...for snow falling. But 2m temps at around -5 wont mean freezing so any snow falling will just melt. Anyway not the place for that discussion. 

The ground temperature can be sub zero when the air temperature isn't.

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  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Winter synoptics.Hot summers.
  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.

UKMO for me even better than GFS at 144Z

Warm air surging into arctic

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .

The GFS gets a bit messy later on but the early changes are very positive moving forward.

If the VQTR does verify then we’re likely to see some bigger changes developing before day ten.

The GEM also looks like it’s accelerated the SSW response.

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Southerly tracking LPs, heavy snow. Also 25c and calm
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey

So a cracking start to tge 12z suite. My target of mid month for LP to attack on Wnw/Ese axis with stalling or now even more hopefully undercutting, looking quite reasonable.  But of interest is snow options look very viable from Sun into Mon.  I think GFS will end as a stonker!

 

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme cold & snow
  • Location: West Sussex

Mild sector alert!

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Seriously though the trend is very good and the potential change looks to be starting much quicker.

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

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The blocking high is so extensive across the latitudes that I can see why any modelling that doesn't sufficiently shut down the eastward momentum in the N. Atlantic sector could end up bringing a 'warm easterly' from way down in SE Europe for example. It's very important that the lows either stay west with a downstream ridge building N of the UK to link with the major blocking high or perform a sliding undercut that gets a good way east in Europe so that cold is advected west on the N. flank.

12z GFS has a half-decent attempt at the slide with LP #1, then a good effort at the downstream ridge effect with LP #2, then no more than a weak disruption with LP#3 so not managing either of the required behaviours/ 

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LP #4 is then a silly dartboard feature for a time but to its credit, does become the best effort of the run at behaviour #1:

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You'll not be surprised to read that I find the fact the succession of the third and fourth outcomes a bit suspect; maybe you'd have to deal with one of those but even bad luck has its limits :laugh:.

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

Surprise, surprise, folks: the GFS is suggesting the potential for some potential at T+384!:rofl:

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks

At the risk of upsetting you after your comment to me this morning I am puzzled by this remark you made

Thats great...for snow falling. But 2m temps at around -5 wont mean freezing so any snow falling will just melt. Anyway not the place for that discussion

Can I assume you meant 850 mb temperature?

genuine question

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  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and lots of it or warm and sunny, no mediocre dross
  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
3 minutes ago, Purga said:

Mild sector alert!

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Seriously though the trend is very good and the potential change looks to be starting much quicker.

Nothing would surprise me when it comes to living in the SW and winter. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

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Oh no! GFS 12z brings a fair amount of rain again in many western and more especially northwestern areas of the U.K. & Ireland (thanks to Atlantic dominated weather) and also across into Somerset, Dorset & the IOW especially near the coast. Not good news if you're like me and hoping for some cold but sunny weather instead of frequent rain.  :angry:

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  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Winter synoptics.Hot summers.
  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.

Crazy times ahead

 

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  • Location: Hampstead / Cambridge
  • Location: Hampstead / Cambridge
13 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Surprise, surprise, folks: the GFS is suggesting the potential for some potential at T+384!:rofl:

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Haha true. The point though is that we are presented, time and time again across individual runs, of opportunities to deliver significant cold weather from an Eastern quadrant. That is a rare thing and in itself symptomatic of how primed the N Hemisphere is to give somewhere at our latitude a significant bout of colder weather in the last third of February. 

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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

Three super finishes to the last 3 Gfs runs, 00z the winner followed by 12z and then 6z..still the 18z to come..gosh isn't this exciting and this is only the beginning!!:DAnticipation grows for something really special for coldies!:cold-emoji:

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  • Location: Barrhead, East Renfrewshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe gales, thunderstorms, snow
  • Location: Barrhead, East Renfrewshire
10 minutes ago, Jonathan Rhodri Roberts said:

Oh no! GFS 12z brings a fair amount of rain again in many western and more especially northwestern areas of the U.K. & Ireland (as we return to Atlantic weather) and also across into Somerset, Dorset & the IOW especially near the coast. Not good news if you're like me and hoping for some cold but sunny weather instead of frequent rain.  :angry:

That’s not just rain, there is plenty of PM shots coming up over the next week or so. A lot of this precipitation will be falling as snow in many areas in NW of the UK.

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme cold & snow
  • Location: West Sussex
2 minutes ago, FiftyShadesofSnow said:

Who knows the ECM or 18z could bring us an EQTR:D......Never know could be snowing by next Wednesday:cold:

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Sorry - must keep positive :laugh:

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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
6 minutes ago, Stormeh said:

That’s not just rain, there is plenty of PM shots coming up over the next week or so. A lot of this precipitation will be falling as snow in many areas in NW of the UK.

Yes you're absolutely right, there is plenty of cold zonality on the 12z runs covering the next 7-10 days so I expect  widespread frosts / ice and wintry showers, some snow at times..it's certainly not just rain..it would be misleading to say it was just wet and windy weather ahead !:)

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