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  • Location: Peterborough
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and frost in the winter. Hot and sunny, thunderstorms in the summer.
  • Location: Peterborough

Day 6 from the GFS

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GFS probably good enough with the low stalling just short of the UK and starting crawl east along the English channel, whilst 850s lift out it is still good enough for snow.

UKMO

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This does bring a more maritime feed into the south though a spell of heavy snow is likely with it turning back to rain on the back edge, not overally mild behind, just less cold. We may get the colder air back south again though with that cold air extending east.

GEM

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SImilar, heavy snow turning back to rain on the back edge, never overly mild afterwards with the cold air never far away in the south and never really leaving the north.

The theme is similar in terms of the broad trend, but the placement of the pattern by a couple of hundred miles north or south is crucial in determining cold and snowy conditions on milder conditions. Plenty of precipitation moving across the UK given the set up which could easily turn to snow the further north you are.

 

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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
12 minutes ago, Nick123 said:

Silly question alert. If that was to verify.... it looks very snowy for the north? Or am I reading it wrong?

Yes but look at UKMO and GEM, both of which would blanket the north over Thursday and Friday rather than a few inches.

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook

UKMO and GEM don't look to dissimilar so I'd assume the temperature profile would be similar for both.

Anyway the game for the south is real simple with this, if 850hpa stays below 0C, it'll snow due to the cold surface...above and it depends on how deep the mild layer air is, rain or perhaps freezing rain (which maybe the MOST dangerous of all solutions, how often do we get freezing rain?)

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  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, Cold & Snowy
  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands

GEM's solution.... :O 

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  • Location: South Essex
  • Location: South Essex
Just now, kold weather said:

Very close run thing for the south on the 12z GFS, probably another 20-30 miles south and an all snow event for everyone.

As it happens, GFS goes for a big snow event west of say a line from Portsmouth north and a freezing rain event further east in the SE. Back to snow later.

BETTER run than the 06z GFS for sure but still mighty close either way!!

Yep agree with that. Very tight margins here indeed. Its not so much how far north the low gets rather that we want it slightly further east to keep us on the colder side. The main risk is to the SE (after a whole lot of snow). I think further west its just a straightforward blizzard given the set up. Better 12z run that's for sure though.

 

 

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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, kold weather said:

UKMO and GEM don't look to dissimilar so I'd assume the temperature profile would be similar for both.

Anyway the game for the south is real simple with this, if 850hpa stays below 0C, it'll snow due to the cold surface...above and it depends on how deep the mild layer air is, rain or perhaps freezing rain (which maybe the MOST dangerous of all solutions, how often do we get freezing rain?)

No, the dewpoints are more important, above zero rain, below zero at least falling as snow.

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  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
  • Weather Preferences: 30 Degrees of pure British Celsius
  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
9 minutes ago, Banbury said:

Dumping of snow 

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What time is that?...UKMO?

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
1 minute ago, ukpaul said:

No, the dewpoints are more important, above zero rain, below zero at least falling as snow.

The airmass is so cold the dewpoints and 850hpa temps will probably be almost identical, so they are probably telling the same story, at least for the initial thrust of snow from the south. As time goes by things change.

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  • Location: Hemingfield, South Yorkshire (49m / 160ft ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Summer Sunshine / Winter Snow
  • Location: Hemingfield, South Yorkshire (49m / 160ft ASL)
3 minutes ago, PerfectStorm said:

GEM's solution.... :O 

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That looks like a good dump!  Many of the runs this afternoon look like giving us the best of both worlds.  Heavy snow from the system moving up from the South and then a continuation of the cold as it fills and moves East into the Low Countries.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon

So, the GFS is keeping the cold for the north and midlands, still too energetic maybe?

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And what do we make of this in the wings???

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No it's going balls up again,  it at least it tried this time.

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland

 

I regret to inform the NW community, but I fear my relationship is over, my missus just caught me watching computer porn

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  • Location: Emsworth, Hampshire
  • Location: Emsworth, Hampshire

Appears the GFS 12z is starting to correct this low *slowly* southwards.

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From over the years, forecasting any low from the South is difficult as it's against the norm. As @Steve Murr and others have stated, a move towards the Euro's take on the track is looking more likely right now.

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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
2 minutes ago, kold weather said:

The airmass is so cold the dewpoints and 850hpa temps will probably be almost identical, so they are probably telling the same story, at least for the initial thrust of snow from the south. As time goes by things change.

The south has DPs over zero from Friday lunch until Saturday (at least GFS says so), so about four or five degrees higher than any 850s.

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  • Location: Cork City(Southern Ireland)
  • Location: Cork City(Southern Ireland)
3 minutes ago, ukpaul said:

The south has DPs over zero from Friday lunch until Saturday (at least GFS says so), so about four or five degrees higher than any 850s.

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Ireland looks well placed. With dewpoints below zero and heavy ppn it could close the country

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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

There's a mass of very cold air just waiting to keep the easterly flow going if we can get over the hurdle of those low pressure systems trending too far north. Swing them south over France and we could be extending things for quite a while.

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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
Just now, January Snowstorm said:

Ireland looks well placed. With dewpoints below zero and heavy ppn it could close the country

Definitely, although it's way too far out and it could change hundreds of miles either way. This one has Ireland, the Welsh/English border and around the Severn Estuary in its sights before it calms down.

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