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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
22 minutes ago, 38.5*C said:

What we're seeing in the models now is the slow transtition into normal UK standard weather patterns. Its not going to happen overnight from dry to wet, the unsettled "blips" will start becoming more frequent and prolonged while at the same time the dryer and warmer spells will slowly start becoming the "blips".  August is a sign that autumn is coming.

It is also the second warmest month of the year and the month when most UK heat records are broken.. so keep that in mind. Not that there's much sign of that happening this year mind you, but mid 30s are still possible up to mid September. 

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

Obviously a while before we know how next weekend will pan out, but given up to and including Friday looks pretty dry for many, these charts are hardly screaming wet.

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Rain in the north west and breezy for all, but nothing too unusual for August and fairly warm with the UK under a broad warm sector so quite cloudy (sunshine in the east)

Before then, just a slight shift west early this week, so much that the hottest air over Europe could graze the south east sufficiently to allow temperatures to get close to the levels seen a couple of weeks ago.

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Pushing 33/34C on Tuesday across East Anglia potentially. The risk of thunderstorms moving north east out of France Tuesday night which is something to keep an eye on.

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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

Most of the unsettled weather on the Gfs 12z operational is further north and the s / se does pretty well in comparison with some high pressure / strong ridging at times, ergo, the best chance of fine warm weather is across most of england and wales with scotland and northern ireland more changeable / unsettled and cooler.. a decent result for the south on this run and deep FI looks nice for most.

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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

Longer term, from mid month onwards the GEFS 12z mean shows encouraging signs that the azores high / ridge will be becoming more influential and the jet will be further north..perhaps the second half or at least the last third of August will give us a fitting finale to this mostly fantastic meteorological summer rather than a damp early autumnal squib!

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  • Location: Portland, Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Mixed winters and springs, thundery summers and meditteranean autumns
  • Location: Portland, Dorset
20 hours ago, Mapantz said:

Were you looking at the 00Z?

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No, it was the 18z, but as I expected in the 8 - 10 day time frame it appears to be an outlier, with the 00z (as you posted) amongst subsequent runs playing with the general idea of waxing and waning Azores influence and some mobility for the N and W UK :)

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  • Location: Portland, Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Mixed winters and springs, thundery summers and meditteranean autumns
  • Location: Portland, Dorset
20 hours ago, Mike Poole said:

No it doesn't and no it isn't. No icing. No cake, not on this run any road.

May have been my mistake if the 18z hadn't fully rolled out, and Friday's run on the TWO site was still apparent, whoops 

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

Awesome ECM, like it was never in doubt here T192 and T216:

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Edit, here's the T240:

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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 Ecm 12z follows a very similar evolution to the 00z which would be good news as it's high pressure building in!☺

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

Worth noting that the ecm develops a cooler high pressure - something we haven’t really seen all summer....but looking at the 240 chart, you wouldn’t think it’d be long before it warms up. BBC long range forecast today back this outcome too. Might only be a small fly in the ointment before it quietens down again!

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  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hoar Frost, Snow, Misty Autumn mornings
  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
20 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

Awesome ECM, like it was never in doubt here T192 and T216:

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Edit, here's the T240:

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Cool north-easterly flow away from Ireland and the north of Scotland. Would get better when the ridge topples at T264, but that's 11 days away.

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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
7 minutes ago, Yarmy said:

Cool north-easterly flow away from Ireland and the north of Scotland. Would get better when the ridge topples at T264, but that's 11 days away.

It's more about building blocks at that range..I would rather see high pressure building in than lows zipping across the atlantic towards the uk..baby steps.☺

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
21 minutes ago, Yarmy said:

Cool north-easterly flow away from Ireland and the north of Scotland. Would get better when the ridge topples at T264, but that's 11 days away.

Not sure about that - we had a north easterly flow for much of late June and that provided widespread sunshine and warmth. 

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  • Location: portsmouth uk
  • Weather Preferences: extremes
  • Location: portsmouth uk

With no strength in the jet and the Azores heights to Scandinavia continues this does not surprise me the Atlantic is extremely quiet.

I don't expect anything but the same fòr awhile longer.

Although Tuesday could spark fireworks.

But fresher air returns for awhile until the Azores heights plonks it's self in Scandinavia once more with perhaps a thundery possibly humid end to this month.

But until the jet gets stronger and heights lose there grip then not a lot really changes.

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  • Location: Peterborough
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and frost in the winter. Hot and sunny, thunderstorms in the summer.
  • Location: Peterborough
34 minutes ago, Yarmy said:

Cool north-easterly flow away from Ireland and the north of Scotland. Would get better when the ridge topples at T264, but that's 11 days away.

I wouldn't be too surprised if that ridge is less amplified when we reach that time. This evenings output again suggests whilst it will turn cooler, the weather looks fairly decent with not too much rain in the south.

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Fairly reflective of a changeable but not overly wet or cool westerly regime. We could see a ridge build more strongly by mid-month.

 

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

Last few frames of the ECM ensemble mean charts, T192, 216 and 240:

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As mean charts go,  the evidence is pointing once again to settled conditions after a  week 'intermission'.  At least for the south.

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  • Location: Saffron Walden, near Cambridge.
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and hot.
  • Location: Saffron Walden, near Cambridge.
7 hours ago, Djdazzle said:

It doesn’t look to be a full on Atlantic onslaught though. What evidence do you have, apart from a few model runs, that suggest the Atlantic will be the dominant force for the rest of August?

I don’t claim to be an expert, but from what I have read on here the background signals and teleconnections do not support the idea.

I have my eyes and the models. 

While the upcoming couple of weeks might not be a washout in the true sense of the word, they might as well be in comparison to the weather we’ve had this Summer.

The coming midweek  is not like the ‘blip’ at the end of July that gave us a couple of grim days and then swiftly reloaded (which was always shown). It’s a clear start of a more cool, cloudy and unsettled outlook with no real indication of a reload of any kind. 

Why have we just had over three months of very dry, warm and settled weather? Because the Atlantic was dormant and the jet was high. The stubbornness of the SSW flow that first occurred in February kept everything unsettled at bay. Looking ahead, this is clearly absent, and the waking up of the Atlantic and lowering of the jet, very evident. 

Now am I saying that it’s going to be grim city now with no pleasant weather? Absolutely not. I have no doubts that we will get a couple, of even a few warm and sunny days in the mix, but the chances of a continuation or reoccurrence of what we have had this Summer are virtually nil. Once we lose that SSW anticyclonic flow and the high jet and the Atlantic awakens, the odds are firmly stacked in the unsettled or mediocre category. 

To reiterate, in no way am I being overly pessimistic about the last third of Summer, and nor am I denying the chances of a few nice spells. I am simply stating things as I see them, which is the death of the pattern we had, and the start of normal UK service. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Tuesday is the last day of the year to record over 30c 

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

I don't post often in this thread, but would like to share my thoughts.

People already writing off August is silly in my mind. 

The EC really does paint a positive picture this evening throughout the reliable time frame, with the Azores high once again moving towards Scandinavia and resetting the pattern seen throughout July and early this month. You can see this developing +192hrs. That mean is pretty consistent for an Azores Ridge. 

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Increased interest (which I think have been covered rather extensively by @Tamara and @Singularity and perfectly explained) is within the Tropical Pacific, which is always a good indicator for upstream developments beyond the range of the mid outputs of the models. El Nino implications continue to paint a interesting picture for the rest of August, which makes me think that people writing off higher temperatures (post 30°C) are being premature. 

I've personally been blow away by this summers conditions, but not overly surprised since the last 'major' pattern change in late February. Again, I personally can see August continuing how it started, past this weeks slightly more amplified forecast. 

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I think we simply need to avoid using dramatic phrases - it leads to a lot of misunderstanding. From your description @matty007 it's not at all an Atlantic onslaught, as @Djdazzle points out.

No-one can deny the jet has returned south and is helping aid a more mobile pattern of weather over the British Isles in the coming week, but the jet doesn't seem that strong and the Atlantic isn't all that active either. As you rightly point out, Matty, there will be spells of pleasant weather from transient ridges of high pressure  - this pattern often favours a N/S split and I expect some southern (more likely SE'ern) areas to wonder what this unsettled talk is all about.

It's all relative though. The NW has been unsettled and mediocre for some time, whilst mediocre for the SE will be 24C with sunshine and the odd shower = perfectly pleasant for others!

Some indications of more prolonged high pressure longer-term, but as we head ever closer to autumn 30C will be harder to reach. Anyone's guess,and I stress the word 'guess', whether we see it achieved again after midweek :)

 

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  • Location: Maldon, Essex
  • Location: Maldon, Essex

Three matches models still differing regarding LP for next weekend and it’s position. It does move through quickly though. What happens after, who knows? ECM is so different from last night’s run and GFS goes for a plume further along.

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth

So we are now fairly clear on the rest of this week - heatwave decisively ending Tuesday / Wednesday, then cooler and changeable with a period of longer rain likely over the weekend. 

The question for next week is - how soon will the front clear? Last night's EC clusters were a little more optimistic for mid term prospects than the previous run, but even so they were growing in confidence that a trough would be slow to clear to the east (see cluster 1, which was well supported) 

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Beyond that, most clusters promote enough of a height rise to bring more settled weather to the UK for 15th - 20th; just one cluster or of six clearly unsettled by the 19th. Some hotter clusters still there, too. This was fairly consistent with 5 of the previous 6 cluster runs

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However, clearly some beefy lows crossing the Atlantic from time to time. In spite of cluster guidance that they will mainly go north, why do I have this nagging feeling height rises won't be enough to deflect incoming lows away from the UK? 

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