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  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet

It's now being one post in eight hours which either means high pressure is flat over the top of us (most people consider it boring until it shifts east or west to provide interesting weather) or we have a washout coming up. 

Tonight's 12z run has a generally cyclonic westerly pattern followed by low pressure parking itself on top of the UK out to day 10. 

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

Ever since I pointed out a trend for lower heights across the Arctic, the models have about-faced and moved strongly toward HLB becoming quite strong and very extensive during the 6-10 day period:rofl:.

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This does look likely to bring a slow-moving low and usually cool (generally low-teens maximums at best) conditions for us to contend with for at least a couple of days and possibly longer.

Things could get pretty interesting from a warm air advection perspective if the low then drops even further south as they often do in the mid-late spring. Much will depend on whether anything escapes E or NE and cuts off any warm air movement toward us, which is what the ECM 12z has sadly gone with.

Hopefully we can get some westward adjustment to the position of the initial low as it drops south - a common modelling adjustment to see but, sadly, not an entirely reliable one.

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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

The latest model output shows our weather very soon becoming more changeable / unsettled and significantly cooler, however, all that basically means is a return to how it should be in late april but it will just feel much worse compared to what most of us have been enjoying this week..i.e..mid to high 20's celsius down to low to mid teens c! :)

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49 minutes ago, Frosty. said:

The latest model output shows our weather very soon becoming more changeable / unsettled and significantly cooler, however, all that basically means is a return to how it should be in late april but it will just feel much better compared to what most of us have been suffering from this week..i.e..mid to high 20's celsius down to low to mid teens c! :)

Good analysis Frosty. ?? 

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  • Location: ipswich <east near the a14> east weather watch
  • Location: ipswich <east near the a14> east weather watch

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?mode=2&ech=204

just had a look  in to fantasy world  is looking very not summer weather to say the least!!

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

Please do not adjust your sets, normal service is about to resume....

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Pretty wet outlook unless you fancy floating around in the English Channel

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  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes of all kinds...
  • Location: Crymych, Pembrokeshire. 150m asl

Oh dear.  First four days of May and the U.K. is swallowed by a rabbit hole.....

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  :nea:

Not a pretty sight if you're looking for settled weather but once it moves away east it might allow something more summery to develop from the south west  - worth watching anyway.  :search:

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
1 minute ago, Summer Sun said:

Early May from ECM 00z and GFS 00z

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I'll take that choice, SS: coolish with slow-moving thundery showers vs warmish with long sunny spells?:yahoo:

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
15 hours ago, bluearmy said:

Keep watching for the upper troughs to drop west of the uk - it was the theme of the 00z ec spreads 

maybe the upper trough nestling over the uk isn’t a done deal as seemed the case on the means and ops from yesterday ........

it wouldn’t take much of a shift in current model trends for us to creep into a warmer continental flow again .......

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  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
7 minutes ago, 38.5*C said:

Good thing too as last time we had a warm April,the summer was rubbish.

Back to Northern blocking again,maybe we won’t reach this weeks High temps again this year.

Temps going below normal again soon,looks like this warm spell was a blip.

 

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  • Location: NW LONDON
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, sleet, Snow
  • Location: NW LONDON
17 minutes ago, SLEETY said:

Good thing too as last time we had a warm April,the summer was rubbish.

Back to Northern blocking again,maybe we won’t reach this weeks High temps again this year.

Temps going below normal again soon,looks like this warm spell was a blip.

 

snow for scotland?

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At last, a better looking forecast for us on the south coast of Wales, apart from Tuesday there's plenty of dry weather with some sunshine at times and so feeling a good deal milder after all that frequent cold sea fog this week which held back temperatures to around 10-12C. If correct then I'll be spending a lot longer at the beach next week compared to this week :clap:

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

Temps going below normal again soon,looks like this warm spell was a blip.

A real nose dive

The weather is and always will be variable, we live in an island with 4,000 miles or so of ocean upwind. Getting deep cold or intense heat for lengthy spells is not something that occurs with much frequency in the UK.

My favourite guides to what may happen suggest that any heat is not being predicted over the next 2 weeks other than the odd day for more SE'ern areas. As to is this a predict for the summer=certainly not, much as the pattern, some suggested was locked in, during early winter, and we all know how the latter end of winter and early spring turned out.

 

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  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
3 hours ago, SLEETY said:

Good thing too as last time we had a warm April,the summer was rubbish.

Back to Northern blocking again,maybe we won’t reach this weeks High temps again this year.

Temps going below normal again soon,looks like this warm spell was a blip.

 

Are you seriously suggesting in mid April that we may not see temperatures in the mid to high 20s again for the rest of the summer? 

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  • Location: Fenland Fylde.The same village as Duncan Iceglide.
  • Weather Preferences: LP - Horizontal Drizzle - Nice Blizzards
  • Location: Fenland Fylde.The same village as Duncan Iceglide.

Last do for the tops anyone? :crazy:

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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
47 minutes ago, danm said:

Are you seriously suggesting in mid April that we may not see temperatures in the mid to high 20s again for the rest of the summer? 

He said maybe which means perhaps / possibly... so I don't think he was seriously suggesting it but seriously, the week ahead looks changeable / unsettled and considerably cooler..in other words, a return to typical / normal april weather.:)

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl

Just repeating what others have said - we are reverting back to very typical late April fayre in the days ahead. A changeable theme, with a westerly airstream becoming northwesterly, so feeling much cooler compared to the past few days, often quite wet or showery, slow moving outbreaks of rain at times and a gusty wind. All quite humdrum stuff, but there should be some brighter breaks in the east and south at times with temps quite respectable still. 

This time of year often brings quite cool cyclonic weather, as the atlantic settles into its annual slumber. It is a highly variable time of year, weatherwise it bring a real mixed bag, sometimes notably cool/cold, sometimes notably warm, sometimes very wet, sometimes bone dry.

 

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

ECM and GFS 00z's are miles apart once again for early May ECM goes for a better start with high pressure moving in whilst GFS goes for a fairly miserable start

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl

team EC for me SS! but we all know settled weather in deep FI always downgrades away from the SE

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

ECM is the only saviour this morning - GFS is vile, and keeps a trough parked over the UK for eternity. ECM at least starts to lift this out by days 9/10. It might be we have hell to pay for the amazing week of weather we have just had!

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