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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
1 hour ago, Scorcher said:

Stunning day today, so nice to get some mild, sunny weather into mid-November. It really shortens the winter as far as I'm concerned. I find it hard to remember a better feeling day for warmth in mid November.

Those days are numbered thankfully

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

Today wasn't great here, lots of cloud and a bit of a stiff breeze. Tomorrow forecast to be wet. However, Thursday and Friday could feel quite balmy especially if we get any sunshine. Mind the sun is so weak now, it doesn't have any real heat to it, but it does brighten your mood significantly, in what is the start of the darkest 2 month period of the year (mid Nov-mid Jan) when sunshine levels are at there annual low.

I'm hopeful next week brings some bright late autumnal weather - crisp days and cold frosty nights. Recent Novembers have featured such conditions quite a bit in the latter part of the month, notably so, in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2017. The third weekend of November (this one coming) has statistically been colder than average in the last 6 years with sunshine, frost and on occasion snow. This one will bring dry sunny weather again, but not the cold. Even the weekend of 20 Nov in 2015 was cold with some snow on hills and dry frosty weather, in what was a significantly wet period - indeed it brought nearly the coldest weather of the upcoming season - only a 2 day blip mid Jan and the latter end of Feb were colder.

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

Anyone else thinking that 2018 might come out as one of the sunniest years ever?

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  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winter, warm/hot summer with the odd storm thrown in
  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire

I think today wins the most dreary day of the autumn so far for here at least. Hopefully not many more like this.

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  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.

low ground most of yesterday morning,same this morning November on average living up to its name of being the dullest month of the year.

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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

Certainly a forgettable November. 

 

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  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire
  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire
1 hour ago, summer blizzard said:

Certainly a forgettable November. 

 

It's been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny here so far. Like every month since April mind you!

Things might look different by month end in November's case however.

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

The beeb have temps ranging from 7c to 12c by Friday. It looks like Tuesday and Wednesday will be the coldest part of the week.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

Yes. No frost is forecast for here, lowest maximum is circa 5°C on Tuesday and temps increasing from Wednesday. A lot of cloud around too. I'd rather have what we've got now, 12°C and sunny!

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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  • Currently, troughing/negative geopotential height anomalies with below normal temperatures dominate Southern Europe with ridging/positive geopotential height anomalies and above normal temperatures across Northern Europe.  However over the next two weeks the pattern is predicted to flip with ridging/positive geopotential height anomalies and relatively mild temperatures across Southern and Central Europe with troughing/negative geopotential height anomalies and below normal temperatures across Northern Europe. The United Kingdom (UK) will be on the border of the temperature divide throughout.

https://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation/

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
7 hours ago, Summer Sun said:

 

Not appropriate to compare an easterly in mid November to one late February, the continent hasn't had any real time to cool by mid November, compared to late February. Easterlies can though deliver in mid-late Nov such as 1993, but these are rare set ups and you need a long drawn easterly with a northern component - we haven't got that now.

 

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

This autumn has some similarities with 2009, albeit we have thankfully been spared the deluges of November 2009 - but the synoptics this month have been quite the same, with low pressure to our west/SW and high pressure to our east and north east. October brought lots of high pressure in 2009 same as this year. September also quite the same. Signals we may see a similar start to December as in 2009, mild and wet but with anticyclonic conditions moving in for mid-month, what followed was a very cold snowy period with high pressure ridging in from the east migrating to the NW and low pressure pulled down from the north.

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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

On the subject of 2009 somewhat one thing i have been impressed with (though i have allowed model bias to screw me) is how reliable the tropics have been (allowing for a ~20 day lag) in terms of guiding our dominant weather pattern. 

So with that in mind i am going to state that we should be looking for a pressure build close to the UK between the 5th-15th December and then look for our next chance of blocking to our north and east from mid-month. 

Now which December does that remind you of i wonder (and based on the Euro/GFS retaining a -AO in the medium term, that blocking may arrive quicker)? 

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
On 21/11/2018 at 22:13, damianslaw said:

Not appropriate to compare an easterly in mid November to one late February, the continent hasn't had any real time to cool by mid November, compared to late February. Easterlies can though deliver in mid-late Nov such as 1993, but these are rare set ups and you need a long drawn easterly with a northern component - we haven't got that now.

 

exactly said it many times, don't want easterlies until late Jan, when Europe cools down

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