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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
7 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Doh, cheers for that.

updated: so 2-4C widely 

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Can’t see it being 4C in London maybe in Camborne more widely 2C at max I’d say if there’s snow on the ground temps will struggle even more which there would be on that particular run.

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  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy Winters, Torrential Storm Summers
  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
6 minutes ago, mulzy said:

If we have snow on the ground, that will knock a degree or so off these temperatures.

Whatever, we are still looking st quite a notable wintry period.

exactly! 2-4c presuming the sun is out as well I would imagine. I wouldn't suggest anyone ventures out in shorts and T-shirts or you'll have people putting there coats on and placing there hangers or your nipples! If it were to play out as per the 00z it will be anything but Mild! 

ECM1-216.GIF?13-12ECM1-240.GIF?13-12:cold:

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  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL

With regards ground temps in a -12c 850 set up, we aren’t talking mid March like the 2013 freeze, it wouldn’t get above freezing with any snow cover. 

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  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Winter synoptics.Hot summers.
  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
5 minutes ago, MattStoke said:

Can't see how the weekend/early next week will be milder with high pressure centre over the UK.

Now 

Modele UKMO - Carte prévisions

 

Mon/Tues

Modele UKMO - Carte prévisions

But cold incoming from the East

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Getting quite certain now that we will see a notable late winter ice blast. 

As an outside worker, I'm dreading it, but getting excited at the same time. Some of these outputs are comparable and almost a carbon copy of Feb 91! 

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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

I think temperatures starting average next week and then trending colder through the week with increasing frosts is a good call..thereafter, becoming very cold from the east with a risk of snow..sounds excellent to me, it's certainly what the Ecm / Gefs mean is showing...game on!:D:cold-emoji:

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  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes of all kinds...
  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl
1 hour ago, georgiedre said:

I for one am hoping that the models show a few low pressures coming in to the SW as an easterly is very dry here on w Wales coast. I'm thinking the high might be further NW than first thought. (Hoping and wishing) ,??

Don't worry - our time will come...  The models are only showing easterly solutions into far FI at the moment but once the Atlantic gets its act together again (probably late March!) then we will see fronts banging into the (by that time) bitterly cold air anchored over the UK, and Wales and the West Country will be in the firing line for some fun and games!

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  • Location: Exeter, Devon, UK. alt 10m asl
  • Location: Exeter, Devon, UK. alt 10m asl
3 hours ago, Catacol said:

It’s an interesting one this - maybe @SnowBallz could add some flesh? True to say that GFS was solid for at least 5 runs in a row (I stopped counting at 5) when next week was at 320h plus range. High pressure to the north with low pressure to the south. It then dropped the idea in the mid range, as did ECM for a time, before picking it back up again as the ssw occurred.

Not the first time that extended modelling has picked up something, dropped, and then come back with it. Maybe it feels more common than is actually the case.... don’t know cos I don’t keep records about this... but it feels as though it is not that uncommon.

Is there something in the model algorithms that puts greater emphasis on different factors when looking at extended range than when the clock moves into medium range? Do they function in exactly the same way at all time scales? We know resolution improves at 72h (at least that usd to be the high resolution point - is it further out now?) but is there anything we can learn about medium v extended?

We are approaching crunch time now - the general pattern looked great a good few days ago now... but now we need a bit of luck to kick in. From around tomorrow we may be able to see whether we are set for dry and cold, or snowy and cold - this relationship likely to wax and wane throughout the cold spell according to orientation and block movement... but I think we will be unlucky if at least once in the spell we don’t get alignment of the block and frontal system development to bring a snow event of substance. Having said that - scars from March 2013 are still raw as nothing arrived here from that setup... so there is no guarantee of anything when it comes to weather watching.

 

 

This is a perception that i also have, and as such would be interested if there is some evidence of this?  To clarify - i'm referring to instances when the GFS/ECM long range outputs show winter Easterly sourced regimes for the UK:- I.e one or both paint various patterns 8-10 days out (+10 for GFS) but these include many solutions that are suggestive of an easterly pattern, then during the 5-7 day period at least one of the ECM/GFS will drop these easterly solutions entirely in favour of a standard westerly/zonal pattern.  Around day 5 they then both start producing consistent Easterly solutions and it's day 1-4 is where we wait to see if they are inevitably moved South/East = snow ends up in Iberia or Greece. 

It's possible/probable that my view on this is clouded somewhat by what happened a couple of times in the dim and distant past (2000's) when i initially started observing model output?

NB Just to re-clarify in order to avoid confusion, i'm referring only to Easterly regimes hinted at day 9+ that are unrelated to an ongoing SSW.  Not northerlies, Greenland highs or established cold air in the UK/Scand region refusing to submit to an Atlantic onslaught predicted by the models (imo this last bias is genuine).  

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  • Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy snow and ice days
  • Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
3 hours ago, Gustywind said:

Yes it was better up north, think the North York moors got a fair bit also. Think the SE corner had a snow event at the end of the spell also when some very cold uppers got into the mix.

I do remember though a lot of moaning from southerners, particularly in the East about showers falling as rain or sleet that week! 

You must be getting confused.

That would just never happen.

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  • Location: Newhey, Lancashire ( 165m a/s/l )
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Newhey, Lancashire ( 165m a/s/l )
3 hours ago, Quicksilver1989 said:

Wait till it gets to T72 before discussing, I made that mistake with the December 2012 failed easterly....:rofl:

A very anticyclonic run from the GFS so far, to get some really good cold nearby we need to shift the NW Greenland polar vortex or move the high towards Svalbard, it may take a while if it does happen.

So did I, bloody shortwave ?

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  • Location: Penwortham nr Preston, Lancashire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe frosts, warm sunny summers,
  • Location: Penwortham nr Preston, Lancashire
53 minutes ago, Bobby93 said:

BBC lunchtime forecast said becoming milder over the weekend and into next week, surely that is just wrong? 

The BBC Weather forecasts just aren't so good/bullish as they used to be a few years ago.

Personally take more notice of ITV now anyhow as they are now with the MET. BBC weather and especially their graphics have gone pants since they started using the meteogroup for their forecasts. Still use some met office data but it looks like its mostly from the BOM! 

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  • Location: Windsor
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold
  • Location: Windsor

Let’s see what the 12z run brings and whether we can speed up the retrogression of the block forming over us at the weekend to bring in cold NE’ winds sooner ❄️❄️

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
33 minutes ago, Sky Full said:

Don't worry - our time will come...  The models are only showing easterly solutions into far FI at the moment but once the Atlantic gets its act together again (probably late March!) then we will see fronts banging into the (by that time) bitterly cold air anchored over the UK, and Wales and the West Country will be in the firing line for some fun and games!

This is so very wrong! 

ECM and GFS mean very strong support for easterlies to commence by next week later in the week. 

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  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: blizzard conditions. ice days
  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
9 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

This is so very wrong! 

ECM and GFS mean very strong support for easterlies to commence by next week later in the week. 

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Agree daniel.

With an, easterly component the west..and parts of the north are shield'ed for such as elevation(north) breaking the colder inflow(somewhat)

And the west via geographical miles.

Eastern and indeed southern parts bear the brunt of the cold in such set ups.

And covection rates/-precip- also come into the equastion....thats just the mechanics-of dynamics!!!

Edit:..and we have current data suggesting- the colder conversion, a little earlier than some are suggesting!!!

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  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
14 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

This is so very wrong! 

ECM and GFS mean very strong support for easterlies to commence by next week later in the week. 

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To be fair, he does say late March. Think we all be happy enough for that to occur if the current FI comes to fruition.

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: Bitter Cold in winter and Extreme heat in summer
  • Location: Leeds

Great model output from the 0z's and then the GFS 6z with amazing GEFS's. Looking forward to the 12z's eagerly now.

I just hope that come mid March we don't have a new member called:

ThatECM-thatGFS-thatUKMO-thatGEM-thatGEFS-thatICON-thatGLOSEA5-thatMORGREPS-thatTELECONNECTIONS

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  • Location: cheltenham.
  • Weather Preferences: if its warm i want sun..if its cold i want snow.
  • Location: cheltenham.
1 hour ago, Bobby93 said:

BBC lunchtime forecast said becoming milder over the weekend and into next week, surely that is just wrong? 

The BBC Weather forecasts just aren't so good/bullish as they used to be a few years ago.

right at the end.. chris fawkes mentioned after the mild weekend/mon/tues models were increasing likelihood of much colder weather from the east.

 

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL

Solar activity in the last week has spiked this isn’t good as far as I know what could be implications? Are signals too ‘strong’ or could there be a deconstructive element to prolonged cold as a result of this.

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  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy Winters, Torrential Storm Summers
  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
8 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Solar activity in the last week has spiked this isn’t good as far as I know what could be implications? Are signals too ‘strong’ or could there be a deconstructive element as a result of this.

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Now wouldn't that just be our luck! 

looking here though it doesn't seem anything to significant. fingers crossed and a bit out of my knowledge base tbh.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-flares

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  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
1 hour ago, karlos1983 said:

exactly! 2-4c presuming the sun is out as well I would imagine. I wouldn't suggest anyone ventures out in shorts and T-shirts or you'll have people putting there coats on and placing there hangers or your nipples! If it were to play out as per the 00z it will be anything but Mild! 

ECM1-216.GIF?13-12ECM1-240.GIF?13-12:cold:

I think it should be made obligatory that anybody who keeps harping on about how 'lovely and warm' it will be in the 'strengthening sunshine', should be made to go outside in a short sleeved t-shirt, beach shorts and flip flops when (if) this occurs.

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull
12 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Solar activity in the last week has spiked this isn’t good as far as I know what could be implications? Are signals too ‘strong’ or could there be a deconstructive element to prolonged cold as a result of this.

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It'll be fine, we have had many severe cold spells during solar maximums :), 1968/69 was one of the most blocked winters out there and I'm pretty sure that occurred during a solar maximum, sunspot activity was also higher in March 2013 I believe.

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
4 minutes ago, Quicksilver1989 said:

It'll be fine, we have had many severe cold spells during solar maximums :)

Some of us bear the mental scars of the last ‘cross model agreed on falied easterly’ at just T96 which was apparently related to solar 

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
8 minutes ago, Quicksilver1989 said:

It'll be fine, we have had many severe cold spells during solar maximums :), 1968/69 was one of the most blocked winters out there and I'm pretty sure that occurred during a solar maximum, sunspot activity was also higher in March 2013 I believe.

Mm well our December 2012 easterly let down of the century solar activity ramped up. Unsure whether that was the causation but I have been weary of that big ball of fire ever since. 

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