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The hunt for cold - Model discussion (late November)


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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: Canmore, AB 4296ft|North Kent 350ft|Killearn 330ft
  • Location: Canmore, AB 4296ft|North Kent 350ft|Killearn 330ft
47 minutes ago, Seasonality said:

I bet there are some who'd still find something to moan about with this chart. 

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Only that it’s 9 days away other than that it’s pretty perfect. 

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

ECM ensemble mean and spread at the key timeframe of T168:

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Yes some uncertainty in the crucial region, but looks to me like most members have gone for it!

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
2 minutes ago, c00ps said:

Only that it’s 9 days away other than that it’s pretty perfect. 

More interestingly, it's going to last for precisely 32 days...Or was that last week's!:cold:

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

ECM ensemble mean and spread at the key timeframe of T168:

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Yes some uncertainty in the crucial region, but looks to me like most members have gone for it!

EPS 240 has the signal for the Atlantic to begin it's attack, op probably sits smack bang in the middle of the ensembles. The control run if anything is more extreme than the Op with stronger blocking across Scandi in the 7-10 day timeframe

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

Sorry a bit late on things tonight - not sure if the FV3 had been posted but it is fairly it close to the ECM

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My confidence is therefore growing that we might see some sort of easterly next week.

It doesn't look right that both the ECM and the FV3 both break the cold down fairly quickly given their D8 positions (milder air into southern UK by D10 on ECM) but this has been a solid theme on many ensembles - quick bite at the cold but Atlantic too strong for now to sustain an easterly. Or is it? 

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

252hr EPS.. 

Strong robust Scandi block, Atlantic not really getting very far and energy looks to be heading South. I would expect given GFS means being similar to the EPS that the 12z GFS is too progressive with the Atlantic and is putting too much energy heading Eastwards. 

Not the first time we've been in this situation of course, but for now I'm personally discounting the GFS until it has some support. 1512359042_Screenshot2018-12-03at19_51_18.thumb.png.d56b2d61069fa52322f61d3d63778c2f.png

 

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

The GEFS 12Z ensemble for Suffolk doesn't inspire a great deal confidence, post December 11...?

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

The ECM mean isn't supporting the Op yet for those really low 850s. 

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Back in Feb and March the mean moved to the Op, in the end, more runs needed as ever to see which way it'll go

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  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
  • Weather Preferences: Hot n cold
  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
24 minutes ago, shaky said:

Expect gfs to fall in line if not on the 18z then 00z!!what a wonderful ecm though!!

Shaky,you just know the 00z's are gonna be dreadful!

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  • Location: West Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Warm summers, Snowy winters.
  • Location: West Dorset
2 minutes ago, Tim Bland said:

ECM is a cold outlier so champagne should stay on ice for now!

Tim, have a look at summers graph, nothing is an outlier post the 9th, anything possible.

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  • Location: Ampthill, Bedfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Heat, Cold, Sun
  • Location: Ampthill, Bedfordshire
1 hour ago, Seasonality said:

I bet there are some who'd still find something to moan about with this chart. 

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It’s 9 days away. 

Pretty to look at but the timeframe to moan at. 

Bring it within 4 days then your post has some legs. 

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
3 minutes ago, Ben Lewis said:

It’s 9 days away. 

Pretty to look at but the timeframe to moan at. 

Bring it within 4 days then your post has some legs. 

Plus it doesn't give a full on countrywide blizzard, which is what we are chasing.

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

Taking stock after the 12s...we're probably still a couple of days away from being able to call the blocked regime bringing in an easterly, certainly taking the day as a whole we've moved a lot closer, UKMO, FV3 and ECM 12z leading the way.  Question maybe over how long lived the spell might be if it happens, but that is very much a secondary question to be resolved later.


Events in the strat equally fascinating, with a SSW now possible within a couple of weeks, has raised the question of will an SSW shuffling the deck just as we've got the trop pattern as we'd like it, mess things up. D'oh!  I don't think it would.  My reasoning is that if a technical SSW (wind reversal at 10 hpa, 60N) were to happen it would be a displacement, not a split, and the strat vortex is already displaced in the direction it would be displaced to (if that makes sense!) it would just enhance the currently developing pattern. ❄️ 

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
6 minutes ago, Tim Bland said:

ECM is a cold outlier so champagne should stay on ice for now!

Was such a tease though, snow streamers developing next Wednesday across eastern England. 

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
3 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

Plus it doesn't give a full on countrywide blizzard, which is what we are chasing.

Thats a once in a lifetime event..

I'm searching for cold, snow is a bonus for me ..

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

I am certainly encouraged by the general trend to build another ridge to our east. 850s look potentially unreliable for forecasting the surface conditions as you could have fairly warm 850s but cold at the surface, especially as the ridge builds folllowing a cold shot from the north/north west.

However we need a deep enough low to develop over Europe to allow the cold air to push west to bring properly cold conditons and of course the chance of snow.

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  • Location: West Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Warm summers, Snowy winters.
  • Location: West Dorset
3 minutes ago, Nick F said:

Was such a tease though, snow streamers developing next Wednesday across eastern England. 

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Nick, come on... no towel throwing...

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
15 minutes ago, Sweatyman said:

Shaky,you just know the 00z's are gonna be dreadful!

Yeh seems to be recurring theme recently!!evening runs more amplified then back to rubbish runs in the mornings!!dunno why thats happening to be fair!

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
1 minute ago, shaky said:

Yeh seems to be recurring theme recently!!evening runs more amplified then back to rubbish runs in the mornings!!dunno why thats happening to be fair!

Not sure about that shaky..

UKMO/EC were both very nice this morning..

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

UKMO extended looks to have the low in the Atlantic a bit closer to the UK and Ireland than ECM 

UKMO                                                               ECM

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
5 minutes ago, Stuie W said:

Nick, come on... no towel throwing...

Sat on a slippery rain slick fence for now, at least the EC det. is consistent rather than the chopping and changing 6 hourly GFS runs, consistency from the EC is encouraging.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
3 minutes ago, shaky said:

Yeh seems to be recurring theme recently!!evening runs more amplified then back to rubbish runs in the mornings!!dunno why thats happening to be fair!

I'm certain we are not imagining this, happens every year.  If there is a genuine bias I expect it can only come from data being collected at genuinely different times of day as input for the two suites.

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  • Location: Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancs

I’d be interested in that day 10 ECM chart. Straight Easterlies don’t bring snow to West Lancashire generally.

It’s fun watching the chaos elsewhere but we only got a light dusting in March. 

A battleground scenario however would get me polishing the bulb in the back garden spotlight.

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