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If you're hunting for cold potential in the model output, this thread is for you. But if you'd like to look more widely at the models, please head over to the general model discussion thread.

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Winter Snow, extreme weather, mainly sunny mild summers though.
  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
36 minutes ago, shaky said:

Steve is it possible that with the days getting shorted that cold pool could be underestimated and could actually be a little bit colder come the time!!also could be a bit more snowfall than currently forecast

It's all about the wind direction, GFS showing a NEly but ICON and UKMO show more of an Easterly and then SEly so a shorter sea track over the relatively mild North Sea, the colder pool of air having travelled over land and not over the mild sea. Net result is that the lower uppers get across the channel. 

Great run from UKMO there, almost perfect for a bit of the white stuff next week for some of us and a reload.;)

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  • Location: Cowbridge, Wales (105m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, cold snowy winters, thunderstorms
  • Location: Cowbridge, Wales (105m ASL)
4 minutes ago, bluearmy said:

-6c Fred .......

in the meantime, gfs 12z is another model now drifting towards the ec op theme of bringing a brief weak southerly feed in around a week or so 

annoyingly, ec op, whilst having messed about with it’s actual solutions, was onto something long before the other models ..... do we see a swing back over the next few runs 

The Gfs 12z chart does seem to reflect and be in line with the met office outlook. That temp lull then a return to cold.

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  • Location: Ventnor, Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Anything other than drizzle
  • Location: Ventnor, Isle of Wight
4 minutes ago, BLAST FROM THE PAST said:

No we want the energy going up/staying on the western side of Greenland with Atlantic not having a look-in.  There is nothing bad about the ECM...It just isn’t as clean early enough but would get us very cold

 

BFTP

I understand your point. My concern is that if there is to much energy there then it will push the HP back instead of establishing over Greenland. Ideally we would want the energy to forced south of the high sending milder air to enhance the block.

At this moment the regression is looking less smooth and a little more wobblier. The ECMWF could get us to cold but it wouldn't take much for that to go wrong. I'm not getting to excited yet as I have a hunch about this. I hope you are all right though

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset
1 minute ago, Steve Murr said:

*but* as that low creeps in the fact its really shallow means evaporational cooling could play a part-

If the icon played out like that, no chance. Strong winds would have a negative effect.

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  • Location: Ventnor, Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Anything other than drizzle
  • Location: Ventnor, Isle of Wight
15 minutes ago, Daniel Smith said:

Look where that energy is heading though - It's going NE up the Western side of Greenland or as some used to call it, the "corridor of death" for low pressure systems

That's the issue. It tilts and blocks the HP to less favourable position and sends more of a s/e wind. We need the energy heading south it enhances the block and produces higher heights.

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent

Broadly not too different from the 6z, UK detail slightly different re: timing of cold etc but the overall pattern remains the same

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull

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12z looks fine so far, high takes a little longer to allign correctly to bring the cold into Europe but its good. Look out for a low pressure system to develop within those cold uppers, we want one to move into Scandi.

EDIT: A few frames later the high starts to sink, maybe not

 

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

I'm straining to peer into the future to try and discover what conditions we will see at the beginning of winter proper.  These are the current charts for +240h which is all I have access to.......

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There certain similarities in places but more than enough differences to leave confidence in any one outcome quite low.  The main feature which seems to be common to all is that high pressure remains in place near Greenland and as long as that holds up we have every chance of a cold start to December.

 

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent

Yeah not a great end to the run from the GFS there from a UK standpoint

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Hemispherically it looks fantastic but high pressure to the South of the UK is quite literally the last place we want to see it - Thankfully, it's miles out.

 

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11 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

If the icon played out like that, no chance. Strong winds would have a negative effect.

Look at the UKMO thats what I was referring to which also is around -8c & very shallow

I know how evaporational cooling works - but thanks...

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Southerly tracking LPs, heavy snow. Also 25c and calm
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey

First FI Opel Gfs for a while.......sending -ve NAO west based 

 

 

BFTP

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  • Location: redcar,cleveland
  • Weather Preferences: Winter cold,snow and frost. Summer hot and thundery
  • Location: redcar,cleveland

The GFS looks strange,wouldn't surprise me if the ECM flipped the other way tonight those heights drain away to quickly on the GFS in my opinion. If it did end up panning out like the 12z GFS shows it would be desperately unlucky 

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent

Okay.. 

Can't say I was expecting to go from heights to the South and low pressure moving in to a surface Scandi high and major trough disruption in just a few frames, very odd low res this evening

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Posted
  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull
1 minute ago, Summer Sun said:

This is one hell of a change in 6hrs

12z

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06z

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Thankfully though the key changes are far away. The reason why the 12z is so different is because the high to our North links with the high over Spain between T192 and T216.

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  • Location: Morecambe
  • Location: Morecambe
4 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

This is one hell of a change in 6hrs

12z

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06z

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And thats why its called FI for a reason, not unusual too see such large variations really.

The UKMO looks okay with the initial easterly in fairness, one of those where surprises could occur with snow but definately a potential for more in the way of frost if skies are clear.

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  • Location: Cowbridge, Wales (105m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, cold snowy winters, thunderstorms
  • Location: Cowbridge, Wales (105m ASL)

Ok the Gfs 12z might have been a little disappointing at the end there however this will change. It is too far to make a call that this will be the set up in the future. Plenty more exciting runs will appear no doubt soon. The waiting game continues.....

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
Just now, blizzard81 said:

I hold you and Steve Murr personally responsible for this run

Yeah sorry guys..

ECM doesn't seem to over-amplify as much as it used too..

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  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
1 minute ago, Daniel Smith said:

Me earlier this afternoon: "The GFS doesn't seem to default to zonal in low res anymore"

GFS: "Hold my beer"

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Hopefully the Op is at odds with the ENS, and the ECM pulls out a blinder. Still a shame Ian F no longer posts in here, was nice getting some input from the METO keeping more of a reality check on FI stuff. 

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
1 minute ago, BLAST FROM THE PAST said:

I’m really liking the UKMO for imby. T144 -8c uppers covering SE and an LP bringing what I feel would be lots of snowfall.  Snow will be laying in lowland southern England last week of Nov......jubbly

BFTP

Let's hope so, Fred. #winterofdiscontent Image result for green goddess fire engine winter of discontent

I started this post a wee while back Fred, so any apparent sarcasm is simply an unexpected consequence of an expected 'stonker' suddenly going pear-shaped!:fool:

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
6 minutes ago, Daniel Smith said:

Me earlier this afternoon: "The GFS doesn't seem to default to zonal in low res anymore"

GFS: "Hold my beer"

 

Hardly zonal though is it?  The way I look at it, in Winter anyway is:

Zonal: 100% chance mild and/or wet.

Meridional: 50% chance mild, 50% chance cold.

No sign in any of the model output that we're in the zonal camp.

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
2 minutes ago, Ali1977 said:

Hopefully the Op is at odds with the ENS, and the ECM pulls out a blinder. Still a shame Ian F no longer posts in here, was nice getting some input from the METO keeping more of a reality check on FI stuff. 

Wouldnt be the metoffice any longer though .......

 

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